Word: handedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Field Marshal Sir Cyril John Deverell, 63, and four other elderly British generals called by request at the War Office in London last week, stepped one by one into the private office of Leslie Hore-Belisha and handed in their resignations. Almost immediately came word that 50 other general officers...
For 25 hours the big ship will undergo such tests. Then, after the payment of a reputed $1,000,000 cash, the ship will be handed over to its purchaser, Amtorg Trading Corp., buying agent in the U. S. for the Soviet Union. Despite all Glenn Martin's urging...
Last week foreign oil companies, already vastly excited over the expropriation, suddenly heard a rumor that the Board of Arbitration was about to decide in favor of the $7,000,000 wage increase previously ordered. Immediately the oilmen got together, announced that they would "suspend operations" and abandon the country...
Unruffled, Superintendent Johnson had his office redecorated in the modern manner (cost to Chicago taxpayers: $5,000), subscribed to a clipping service and immediately plunged into a strenuous campaign to try to make a monkey of leading educational opinion. He issued a series of decrees changing the curriculum, setting up...
Kavy was apprehended by Yard police Wednesday evening at 9:30 o'clock in one of the entries of Leverett House. Apparently he had been "investigating" the contents of several rooms. After brief questioning by the officer making the arrest, Kavy was handed over to Cambridge city police.