Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insinuating that Nominee Kelly's backing was largely Jewish. On election day 715,560 Philadelphia voters went to the polls, the greatest number in the city's history for any kind of election. What evidently settled the matter was a solid phalanx of Republican jobholders. Forced to hang together or risk losing their bread & butter, Republican ward leaders somehow patched up the quarrels which had kept them wrangling since the death of Boss William Scott Vare. Boss Yare would have been glad to know that his successors managed to win by 47,000 votes, after an expenditure...
...over on you down in Egypt, when that woman tried to tempt you and you looked her square in the face and pushed her away. Say, Joseph, I like you." Then Billy Sunday asked for Peter, James, John, Andrew, Philip. Finally he asked a favor of Jesus: Could he hang around the gate to welcome his family in? "You can sit right there, Bill, if you want to. It's all right." So he hung around the gate, waiting to say: "Hello, Helen! Hey, George! Hey, Will! Hey, little Paul! Come on in!" Whether the Rev. William Ashley Sunday...
Studebaker went into receivership in March 1933, emerged in March 1935-in itself a remarkable accomplishment since U. S. motorists usually give a receivership car a bad name, proceed to hang it. Studebaker's $4,876,000 loss in 1933 was cut to $1,462,000 in 1934. From March 9, 1935 (end of receivership) to June 30, losses were held...
Commissioner Valentine of the New York Police made a fiery speech to his department on Wednesday. "We want to tar the collars and dirty up the fancy shirts of a few of these mugs who hang around the night spots," he explained. "I think a lot of them are going to resist arrest, and there'll be many a black eye in the morning...
...many years the House has been in the habit of voting from $1,000 to $2,500 for memorial portraits of its Speakers to hang on the crowded walls of the lobby just outside the Chamber. (Before that, deceased Speakers got their photographs stuck up in the Speaker's room.) First oil to make the lobby was a portrait of Henry Clay by Giuseppe Fagnani. Of the 45 Speakers that the House has had, 39, in heavy ormolu frames, are there now. Of these only three are out of the ordinary: 1) the first Speaker of the House, bewigged...