Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this were part of the routine of taking X-ray pictures, put her head through the door. She was just in time to see Mrs. Fusco knocked down for a third time. The girl's screams summoned a man who turned off the current which then let Frank Brown fall unconscious to the floor...
...Said Frank Brown, whose only apparent injuries were seared hands: "It must be the anticipation, the thinking about what you are going to feel in the days and hours before you go to the chair, that is the worst suffering...
...lion lovers on the Pacific Coast were further horrified last week when California's Governor Frank Finley Merriam signed a law providing that the Fish & Game Commission be "empowered to reduce the seal or sea lion herds by humane methods whenever such a course is deemed advisable, and to sell the animals, the pelts or carcasses. . . ." But reassurance came when it appeared that the Commission had no intention of using its destructive powers for several years, until the herds had increased to the point where control measures are necessary. The amendment also tightened the restrictions against killing or capturing...
Cinema Director Frank Capra, Playwright Robert Riskin, Cinemactress Edna May Oliver, arrived...
...will of Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902) generously provided two Oxford scholarships every three years for boys from every U. S. State.* In 1902, when the will was executed, there were 45 States. Scholarships were added for Oklahoma (1907), Arizona and New Mexico (1912). In 1929, Rhodes Scholar Frank Aydelotte, president of Swarthmore College and U. S. executor of the Rhodes Trust, knocked on the door of Parliament and had the Trust amended to establish eight districts of six States with twelve scholarships apiece, an arrangement which has since eliminated many an indifferent backwoods candidate. Last week alert Trustee...