Word: hid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Collapse in the Waldorf, For three weeks Dutch, English, Russian and U. S. oilmen gathered almost daily in Room No. 2604 of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, seeking to reach an agreement by which markets could be kept steady, profitable. Last week the conference broke up without results. Secrecy hid all the conference's deliberations but reasons given for the breakdown by oilmen were numerous: 1) The Russians would make no agreement for more than three years, the defensive Englishmen and Americans sought a ten-year pact. 2) The Russians declined to limit exports to the 1931 level, refused...
...Russian troops to mutiny. The White officials made long speeches about patriotism and honor. The Red propagandists said three words: "Peace, Bread and Land." "They knew the people. . . . They whispered three words, then waited three months, then acted." Outlawed, the Lancers tried to win their way back to Poland, hid in the forests, finally had to desert their beloved horses and scatter. Boleslavski took shelter with a mad woman who thought he was her dead husband returned from the War. Mixing with a mob of soldiers he got away to Moscow and another life. Way of the Lancer, written...
...Tottenville, N. Y. a clam digger found 22 silver dollars in a tin box in the mud. He sped them to a bank. ¶ Near Fort Wayne, Ind. a farmer hid $250 in an old bureau drawer. Rats chewed the bills to bits so small that banks refused to redeem the trash. ¶ At Los Angeles a 10-year-old boy found a tin can, used it as a target for rifle practice. Out of the can his father extracted eleven $1,000 bills, perforated with bullet holes. A broker accepted the currency in payment for securities...
...Charlottesville, Va., Alex Holliday, six and black, left in charge of a neighbor's baby, put the baby in a stove because it cried for its mother, hid under bedcovers as the baby burned to death...
Fellow inmates, judges, lawyers, officials of the institution and a jollier brother, Capt. Eugene Nutter, 75, who had come from Gouldsboro, Me., asked them to make friends. Instead, Capt. Fred Nutter scowled sadly at his brother in the court; Capt. Edgar Nutter hid his face with his hat. A patient magistrate dismissed the case. Capt. Fred Nutter strolled out the front door. Capt. Edgar Nutter, too proud to follow him, went out the side...