Word: gan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pronounced Sarro-joe-glue) was preparing to visit Moscow. Announced before Russian troops invaded Poland, the trip grew in importance as the week advanced, as the significance of joint Russian-German aggression swept over the frightened Balkans. A 55-year-old lawyer, nervous, clever, quick-witted Shokru Saracoglu be gan his public life at 40, when Turkey's Kamal Atatürk was consolidating, his power, when Russia on the north was far from strong. A lusty, exuberant Moslem (married, with two children) Shokru Saracoglu has gone through many reputations in Balkan and Western eyes: once people spoke...
...Bostonians kept this lead until the fifth inning when the Samborskimen combined an enemy error and two bases on balls with three sparkling one-base hits by Bill Parsons, Bud Fine gan, and Sullivan to push in three tallies...
Swift Lathers, whose Mears, Mich., Newz is the smallest (four pages, 5¼ by 7¼ inches) and oddest newspaper in the United States. A poet and mystic who spends his summers in a tent and many of his nights pacing the dunes of Lake Michi gan, Editor Lathers makes a precarious living for his wife and three children (Thelma, Billo and Forest Glenn Lathers) by publishing such fascinating bits as the following: "Miss Cornelia Vander Zander is crocheting an oval rag rug to put her bare feet on these cold mornings when she steps out of bed. . . . Hooray, hooray...
...13th year over NBC. Like many another radio old timer, the Cities Service program got its start with Graham McNamee announcing. First feature was silvery Edwin Franko Goldman's cornety band. When the program was a half-year old, Canadian Conductor Rosario Bourdon took over, be gan making the Cities Service hour the big-time show it is today. He handed the baton over last February to Dr.* Frank Jeremiah Black, an old timer...
Kings County (Brooklyn) has for district attorney no racket buster but a dapper, grey-haired Democratic politician, William Francis Xavier Geoghan (Ghee-gan). When Commissioner Heriands began probing into District Attorney Geoghan's protracted investigation of Brooklyn's fur racket, he grew mightily suspicious, started an investigation of his own. Last fortnight the two investigations clashed over an habitual jailbird named Isidore Juffe. Mr. Juffe told the Herlands office that he had ''paid plenty" to keep out of jail in Brooklyn. District Attorney Geoghan said he had been at liberty as a stool pigeon, promptly clapped...