Word: gan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smooth, deep-voiced Negro, Johnson settled back on the witness stand and be gan to tell a federal jury in San Francisco how he had heard Bridges address a Communist National Committee meeting in 1936, how he recalled voting to "re-elect" Bridges to the national committee two years later under the alias of "Rossi." Attempting to discredit the testimony, Defense Attorney James M. MacInnis got the witness to admit he had never seen Harry Bridges at a national committee meeting after...
There is no state like Mich-i-gan...
...Palestine Government imposed military rule for the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv and its suburb of Ramat Gan; nearby Petah Tiqva, the oldest modern Jewish community in Palestine; Benet Beraq and numerous communal settlements in the area and the Mea Shearim section of Jerusalem, where 15,000 Jew reside...
Gruner, a 33-year-old Hungarian refugee, was found wounded in front of the police station at Ramat Gan, a suburb of Tel-Aviv, after an Irgun raid last April. The British said that he and his pals had held up and disarmed the police, were about to seize the arms in the station when other cops on the roof opened fire, forcing the raiders to withdraw. An Arab constable was killed in the Skirmish. Gruner made no defense, refused to recognize the jurisdiction of the Palestine Government, insisted that he be treated as "a prisoner...
Postmaster General Robert Hanne-gan surprised Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly by assimilating a heroic-sized "Black Cow" -six scoops of ice cream in three bottles of root beer. A pop-eyed Chicago Daily News editorialist pointed a moral: "This is an age of power, size and grandeur...