Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recognize it. That love of legal formality which is part of their national character may cause them to delay active assistance, but in long run France will not sit idly by while the Bruening government falls. Another government in Germany would probably repudiate reparations altogether. The French will not hill the goose that lays the golden eggs...
...march to Capitol Hill...
...seriousness of the situation. A Public Safety Act was issued making membership in the Irish Republican Army and eleven other secret organizations illegal.* A military tribunal was set up to try prisoners for sedition. Free State police raided a dozen homes, jailed 20 men in the ancient Arbour Hill Military Prison, where leaders of the Rebellion of 1916 were executed and buried...
...lowly Indian named Quauhtlatohua left his home in Cuauhtitlan to go to mass in Tlaltelolco. His name had been changed at baptism to Juan Diego. As he passed by the barren, rugged hill of Tepeyac, site of old Aztec shrines which the Spaniards had overthrown, there appeared to him, amid rainbow colors and heavenly music, a beautiful woman. It was the Virgin Mary! She addressed Juan Diego as hijo mio (my son), told him to go at once to the bishop and say that she wished a church built on the hill. Juan Diego went, but the Bishop...
Died. John Haydock Carroll, 73, railroad lawyer, general counsel for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and Northern Pacific Railroads, assistant to the president of Baltimore & Ohio, personal legal adviser to the late Railroad Builder James Jerome Hill; after long illness; in Washington. For 32 years his parentage was unknown to him. His mother took him to Cincinnati at the age of five, then disappeared. He lived in a drygoods box with another urchin, sold newspapers, blacked boots. Placed in an orphanage, he escaped in 1865 and by selling "extras" telling of Lincoln's assassination accumulated $4.50, went to Toledo...