Word: item
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...younger sons to laying out cricket fields, tennis courts, organizing a Rugby football team, dramatic societies, a cornet band. In the Tennessee mountains old English homes sprang up, a "Tabard Inn," a church, a library which included a practically complete set of Hughes first editions, a rare Dickens item, pamphlets by the younger Pitt, the entire series of Illustrator Kate Greenaway. Tom Hughes's mother moved there, lived out her life in "Uffington House." But Tom Hughes's wife thought the whole thing was silly. She insisted that he return to England...
...MARCH OF TiMEstyle dramatization (with background by Commentator Elmer Davis) of the ten tumbled days that ushered in World War II, contains little new or startling. But for anyone who wants to keep Hitler's actual voice around the house, it is a collector's item. From shortwave radio speeches and from foreign recordings, the producers caught Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladier in action, fitted their own voices into the pattern of war in the making. Momentous remarks: Chamberlain, after Munich (sounding like a man having trouble with his uppers): "I believe it is peace for our time"; Hitler, less...
...item shown in this connection is an advertising leaflet prepared for the European equivalent of the Pullman company, to advertise its sleeping car accommodations; the leaflet is simply printed in white type and illustrations are on a dark blue background...
With Louisiana in an uproar and Federal investigators hastening down from Washington, the Item abandoned Huey's followers to their fate. Suddenly the Item came out with an editorial platform calling for punishment of "all who have stolen from State and Federal Governments," rigid State economy, honest elections. Next day, in an editorial headed At Long Last, the States sarcastically welcomed the Item "to the fold of those who are battling to save Louisiana from political racketeers, political thieves and corruptionists...
Silent Shushan. What got the Item in trouble last week was a case that opened in Louisiana's Federal court against Abraham Lazard Shushan (who once backed Huey Long financially, in return got his name on New Orleans' palatial Shushan Airport) and four other defendants accused by the Government of using the mails to defraud. According to the grand jury's indictment, they shared a fee of $496,000 on a false claim that they had saved the Orleans Levee Board $2,000,000 in a bond-refunding operation...