Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fellow countrymen watched with calmness the butchering of Armenians, for decades -while Turkey was a British ally. They bore patiently through the years the sufferings of the Hindu, while England bled white that rich nation. They exhibited stoic calm while the Irish were starved, killed, ground down. The same calm was exhibited in the case of the Boers, and while the Russian ally of Britain was knocking off some million Christians. But now, NOW, the villain is an enemy -and a much and rightly feared one-of England, and hark to the uproar...
...should fire Secretary of the Navy Denby for his part in the oil scandals has one been adopted. Unlike Secretary Denby, who resigned, Miss Perkins, who knew she would not be impeached, welcomed a showdown. She repeated what she and her colleagues have said all along: that the only ground on which Harry Bridges might be deported is that he belongs to the Communist Party, which he denies and which has not been established as a fact; that even if it were established, the Department of Labor would still have to wait for the Supreme Court to pass...
...vogue but set up a lively demand for real life counterparts as well. Last month, before his legislature met, Missouri's Governor Lloyd Crow Stark published a tempting want ad. If any place needed a Dewey, thundered the Governor, it was that haven of corruption, Kansas City, stamping ground, of his old enemy, Boss Tom Pendergast. Governor Stark ordered his Attorney General Roy McKittrick to go into action. Last week the play was taken out of McKittrick's reluctant hands by an oldtimer at reform...
...soared along at 300 m.p.h. Test Pilot John Cable then apparently cut one motor to try a climb on half power. Instead of climbing the ship went into a spin. John Cable bailed out at 500 feet, pulled the ripcord of his parachute too late, died on the ground. In a parking lot less than 50 feet from his body, the bomber demolished nine automobiles before it stopped...
That's why we're all goin' down to the Met this week and watch Hollywood whitewash the whole buryin' ground he's lyin' in. We're gonna see Tyrone Power grow a beard and act real tough. We're gonna see Lowell's. Nancy Kelly look mighty sweet. We're gonna watch Jesse live, 'n' love, 'n' fight, 'n' finally get mowed down by a skunk whose name ain't fit to be written down here. Mebbe we'll even enjoy ourselves...