Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ohio's Vic Donahey has lately boasted that he will vote against the Pope-McGill Farm Bill pending in the Senate on the ground that he cannot understand it. This was practically the only complaint not offered by various rebellious members in the House last week, as Chairman Marvin Jones of the Agriculture Committee maneuvered his 86-page Farm Bill toward the first vote taken in either House on a part of the President's program for the special session...
Last night a late passer-by marveled at the sight of Wigglesworth students studying on the frozen ground outside their entry...
...bloody Rightist attack west of Toledo beaten off, and another that captured several hundred yards of dugouts and trenches on the Aragon front near Olivan, were the only actions of importance on the ground last week. No qualified observers would admit that the winter's stalemate for which all Spanish noncombatants were devoutly praying...
From the church, Prince and new Princess von Starhemberg went directly to file papers on the basis of which an Austrian court immediately declared legitimate the son which the bride bore the bridegroom three years ago. The annulment of the Prince's earlier marriage was on the ground that he and his first Princess made and kept a pre-nuptial pact to have no children. Thus the child which was a bastard for three years now is a legitimate Prince von Starhemberg, aristocratic to his baby fingertips...
...planes, killed two racing pilots in the first day's events. Zipping around a pylon in specially designed speedsters at nearly 200 m. p. h. Thompson Trophy-Winner Rudy Kling, Lemont, Ill. garage proprietor, and Detroit Barnstormer Frank Haines sideslipped and somersaulted from about 200 ft, struck the ground with an impact that sickened the 7,000 spectators. Both were apparently caught in the same down-draught, both crashed within a few seconds and 200 yards of each other. As her young husband was sawed from the wreckage, young Widow Kling said sadly: "Today was Rudy's 29th...