Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convict on these facts. But an extortion verdict with a possible sentence of 20 years in Sing Sing was only the secondary motive behind the District Attorney's elaborately constructed case. His main idea war to keep Bruno Richard Hauptmann in penal storage until New Jersey could gather evidence, extradite and indict for murder...
...fifth day the siege had cost Public Service Electric & Gas Co. $400. On the promise of a truce Mrs. Barnabie was induced to leave the post hole for a conference at the mayor's office. Reluctantly the company offered $200. Mrs. Barnabie returned home to gather up her flag, announce complete victory. That evening the line crew cut up the pole, carted it into the Barnabie cellar...
...political struggle for power, there is no surer road to success than the expenditure of huge sums of money. Money is the most potent ally which a political candidate can secure. By spreading its benefits over a wide area, the campaigner can gather about his standard a group of partisans who will support him regardless of his party affiliations personal character or past record...
...effort on the part of the division is to gather together the records of the various societies which are associated with Harvard. A large collection has already been made. But it is still being entered rapidly. One of the most interesting was the almost forgotten Med Fac Society, which flourished about fifty years ago, with its main object the perpetration of practical jokes, including sending the chapel bibles to our friends in New Haven
...Ferretti. who was to become Pope Pius IX ("Pio Noro"). In Buenos Aires wise Catholics will gaze speculatively on the austere features of Cardinal Pacelli, for he will undoubtedly be a man to be reckoned with when the present Pope, now 77, dies and the Princes of the Church gather in the Sistine Chapel to elect a successor...