Word: grocers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happened out there in the water on a certain June night cannot be told. But the people of a small New England town (pop. less than 4,000) can guess. About 11 p.m., when the fog cleared and the stars came out, Frank Aresta, a policeman (by day, a grocer) on dimout duty, saw a flash followed by low, rolling thunder, then another and another. Said he to Carpenter James Thomas: "Storm, hell-that's shootin'." He telephoned the Coast Guard station. Soon a plane roared...
...like a sponge for my bath." She moved on to the furniture store. "Good morning, Your Majesty," said the furniture-store man. The Queen priced linoleum, bought an inexpensive grade. It was for the bathroom floor; her granddaughters had been splashing it with water. She moved on to the grocer's. "Good morning, Madam," said the grocer. The Queen bought some soap and some washing flakes. Then she departed as she had come, in a big armored car, a carload of guards in front, another behind...
...leave too. Likelihood was that Ambassador Grew and his staff would get out of Japan by way of Russia and Alaska. But meantime Ambassadors were a drug on the market. In Washington the German diplomats bought trunks; the Japanese sent out for food, were no longer trusted by their grocer, and had to pass the hat to pay for it. They sat around the Embassy drinking whiskey gloomily. Their American chauffeur, driving out for the last time, was jailed for drunkenness...
Died. William ("Sourdough Bill") Sulzer, 78, only New York Governor ever to be impeached and removed from office; in Manhattan. Son of an 1848 revolutionary who fled from Germany, he was a grocer boy on Manhattan's East Side, studied law, entered politics before he was of voting age. With Tammany support, he served 23 years in the State Legislature and in Congress, was elected Governor in 1912. Once in office, he started bucking Tammany, and before a year was out Tammany got him impeached. He was removed from office on charges of perjury and falsifying his campaign expenses...
...Evansville, Ind., a grocer and a robber pointed loaded revolvers at each other, pulled and pulled the triggers, clicked and clicked, finally gave...