Word: general
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight, on a hunch, an unnamed physician at General Hospital tried a simple kindergarten game on Mrs. Gregory. He knotted the end of a fine steel wire, gently pushed it down her throat into her stomach. On the wire he threaded a tiny steel bead, no larger than a grain of wheat, which he propelled down Mrs. Gregory's throat with a small steel spring. The next bead was a little larger. After half a dozen graduated beads had gone down the wire, and forced a narrow opening in Mrs. Gregory's food passage, the doctor pulled...
...more logical explanation of the market break was just coming over the ticker -the hasty, fear-begotten British and French military alliance with Poland. Next morning, however, newspapers gave the Angas rumor part credit for dropping prices to within a hair of the January lows. New York Attorney General Bennett subpoenaed Boom Angas for a hearing. The florid Major blandly denied having sent any general wires since March 25. He said he had only a "diminutive influence" on the market...
...Died. General Gerardo Machado y Morales, 67, onetime (1924-33) President and terroristic Dictator of Cuba, who shot dissenters in the back or fed them to sharks, and whose own officers drove him from Cuba in 1933; of abdominal cancer; in Miami Beach...
...politician, he was Republican candidate for President four years too soon. As a general, he prematurely emancipated the slaves in his district. As an explorer, he became such a popular favorite at 29 after his first Western trip, that later and harder journeys were anticlimactic. He raised the U. S. flag in California before the Mexican War broke out. He was born out of wedlock and married in haste. He fell in love with smart, ambitious Jessie Benton, daughter of Missouri's great Senator, but she was only fifteen; he married her secretly two years later, before...
...Members of the House Committee will be available during those hours to talk informally with candidates who may wish to discuss general House activities...