Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henderson then was on his way out of crumbling NRA, which he had served as director of Research and Planning, chief economist, member of its short-lived National Industrial Recovery Board. He subsequently fell so low that in 1936 he had to ask Democratic Press-agent Charlie Michelson for a $50-a-week job with the Democratic National Campaign Committee in Manhattan...
Franz von Papen ended the War as a liaison officer on the Near Eastern Front. In the retreat of the Turks and Germans from Palestine he again left behind some valuable papers which fell into British hands. They, too, showed payments to U. S. agents. London was cabled for instructions. Legend has it that London replied: "Forward papers. If von Papen is captured do not intern; send him to a lunatic asylum...
...Party was meeting there to choose a leader to succeed the late Prime Minister Joseph A. Lyons (TIME, April 17), and Mr. Menzies had reason to think he might be picked-which would mean that he would almost automatically become Prime Minister. In his great rush Mr. Menzies slipped, fell, sprained his arm. He finally appeared at the meeting with his arm in a sling and was at once chosen leader...
Finicky collegians started more appetizing games. At San Jose (Calif.) State College, for example, Jack Baldwin wagered he could catch and kiss 20 co-eds in 30 minutes, fell six short. Soon San Francisco State College's Marshall Blum claimed a record: 40 kisses in five minutes. At New York University Co-ed Dorothy McDonald kissed 36 boys in four and a half minutes. San Diego State College's Joseph Arthur Pranis staged a three-day hunger strike to bring gulpers "to their senses." At week's end he was thwarted by what seemed an ultimate -horror...
...spilled it on her white frock. After the dance they started to drive her to an address she gave. At a cemetery she asked to be let out of the car. One of the boys threw his coat over her shoulders, followed her into the graveyard. She vanished, he fell dead. Panic-stricken, the other-boy drove to the address she had given, there learned that the girl had died several months before. On the dead girl's grave, they found the dead boy's coat. When they exhumed her, they found a wine stain on her white...