Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seven weeks ago snarled the fighting forces of Japan and Russia. Moscow claimed the whole hill was in Soviet territory when the scrap started. But when a truce was finally arranged between Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff and Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japan was left with her present firm hold on the westward slope of Changkufeng. Russia agreed to submit final ownership to arbitration, thus gave up her previous absolute claim to Changkufeng. For this truce Japan last week was ready to pay off in kudos. Tokyo dispatches prophesied the forthcoming promotion of Ambassador Shigemitsu to the highest rung...
Prominent in the affairs of many a western U.S. State during the late 19th Century and early 20th were former bad men who had renounced their evil ways and reformed. To many a Westerner, the swashbuckling hold-up man who confined his depredations mainly to big banks and railroads was at least half hero. South of the Rio Grande the distinction between bandits and "liberators" has run even thinner. Last week, noted Mexican Bandit Enrique Rodríguez, nicknamed El Tallarin ("The Noodle"), surrendered to Governor Elpidio Perdomama of Morelos. Taken before military authorities at Mexico City, "The Noodle" explained...
...friend, Charlie Nickerson, to take him out. Captain Nickerson is one of many young commercial fishermen whom the Government has encouraged to equip themselves to guide visiting game fishermen. Alf Kenney marveled at the huge 16-0 reel and the 54-thread line, which scarcely looked hefty enough to hold a fish like the 860-pounder which Churchill Bower had brought into Shelburne few days before, taken with a keg and handline...
...years ago, when Scripps-Howard sold the Youngs town Telegram to the Vindicator, the chain's hold on Ohio began to weaken. Ohio was the birthplace of the late Edward Willys Scripps's great journalistic venture. Of its six once prosperous Ohio dailies, Scripps-Howard now has but three: the Cleveland Press, patriarch of the chain, the Cincinnati Post, the Columbus Citizen...
...pull Hilda up again it took eight men from the Department of Parks, a derrick truck, block & tackle. Attendants said she had no bones broken but she refused to move her hind legs. A sling was rigged to hold up her body and give them a rest...