Word: going
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Mark Megladdery was brought to trial in the courtroom where he had vainly waited for, cases during his days on the bench. A San Francisco barkeeper named Clarence Bent testified that he was the go-between in Mark Megladdery's bribe-taking. Frank Merriam bumbled that he had heard rumors about his secretary, had not believed them. He also confirmed the report that he once told Mark Megladdery to use State funds to pay $150 in back taxes for Sister Ann Merriam, who runs a private school in Los Angeles. (According to testimony, Secretary Megladdery thought...
...Wartime draft. He escaped to Germany, where he remained for 19 years. There he wed a gardener's daughter, sired five children. Now living in Philadelphia with Grover Bergdoll's aging, militant mother, Mrs. Berta Bergdoll and five-year-old son Erwin (see cut) had to go to Governor's Island to greet...
...Joseph Goebbels sprinkled Nazi papers with such ominous phrases as "impending decisions," the "war of tomorrow," the "mighty reckoning" to come. The Italians went Dr. Goebbels one better. Il Messagero, of Rome, flatly warned: "If within a certain time the democracies do not yield to councils of reason we go to war." The Fascist official newsorgan Resto del Carlino roared: "The time of reckoning is near. . . . They still deny us Tunis, Djibouti, Suez and also deny Danzig and colonies to our ally, Germany. A transfer of power is near. The future is ours...
Colonel Lawrence confessed: "It was evident that if we won the war these promises would be dead paper, and had I been an honest adviser of the Arabs I would have advised them to go home and not risk their lives for such stuff. But I salved myself with the hope that by leading these Arabs madly in a final victory I would establish them with arms in a position so assured (if not dominant) that expediency would counsel a fair settlement of their claims...
...want to be courteous to me, won't you, when you go to bed at night, just say a prayer for me, as I go forth as a good Christian soldier to heal our wounds...