Word: happening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same time that 53,000 egg-rolling youngsters were trampling down the fine green turf of the White House lawn, 4,000 of their elders were exploring the marble corridors of the new Supreme Courthouse. Little did many of them know beforehand of the momentous things that might happen during their visit. Little did they know when something did happen, for the courtroom was too small to admit more than a fraction of their number. But the connoisseurs knew and were present. Stanley Reed, Robert H. Jackson and James W. Morris, top-flight attorneys of the Department of Justice...
...sure yet that what happened in Germany couldn't happen here," a Canadian interviewer was told in London by Britain's No. 1 Jewish industrialist Lord Melchett. "Another slump like the last one-and I'm afraid we'd have civil war in Britain!" Melchett told of advising the Government to buy 300,000 tons of copper at Depression's dirt-cheap price of $150 per ton, remarked that the Government is now screaming for copper at $350 per ton, cannot find as much as it wants for rearmament...
...work for freedom, or a youngster who suspected that there was something rotten in the state of Italy; but among people so burdened with fear that they dared not even pronounce the Leader's holy name (they referred to Him as ''Etcetera Etcetera") nothing could happen...
After investigation by Yard Police, Colonel Apted was able to announce last night that the culprit was known and he did not believe that such an incident would happen again...
...when they come into power?' " Said Mr. Miller: "No, I could not." Everyone turned to stare at the two women. One of them was easily recognized as Alice Longworth, but she was not the writer of the note. Columnist Dorothy Thompson, wife of Sinclair (It Can't Happen Here) Lewis, was. One of the witnesses was Ferdinand Pecora, Justice of New York's Supreme Court. Familiar with Senate investigationl from his Job as chief inquisitor in the banking investigation of 1933-34 he easily made headlines by broaching' an argument which, if sit-down-strikes reach...