Word: kept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert S. Allen which is one of Janizary Corcoran's favorite wind tunnels for testing political balloons, a handsome tribute to Mr. Murphy and a serious discussion of his qualifications to succeed the late Justice Cardozo. Excerpts: "When Murphy was judge of the recorder's court he kept a little cardboard placard behind his desk where only he could see it. It read: If you must err, err on the side of leniency...
...South Bend, old Bob Zuppke's Illinois team, which upset Indiana University's championship dreams fortnight ago, kept 45,000 fans on edge before finally surrendering to undefeated Notre Dame...
Meanwhile, five other members of the Big Ten Conference kept last week's spotlight on the Midwest...
...Dodd, a railroad brakeman who had staked out mining claims near Beardmore, and was digging and blasting in his spare time. He took them home, thinking they were Indian relics. His wife insisted that he get "that junk" out of the house. Dodd relegated them to the woodshed, but kept on talking about them. Eventually word of the find reached the ears of Curator Currelly, who asked the railroadman to bring his treasures to Toronto. After some study the archeologist became convinced that he had genuine Norse armor of the late 10th or early 11th Centuries. He sent photographs...
...conquest of China, he claims, the Japanese sold monopolies in gambling, prostitution and opium to racketeers. But individual officers and police (there are five distinct Japanese police forces in Manchuria, often at odds) sold protection to other racketeers and kept for themselves money intended to pay for Japanese arms. Vespa organized gang raids against rivals of the monopoly (his European birth minimizing interdepartmental conflict, since officers blamed him rather than the army). A fascist and an admirer of Mussolini, Vespa nevertheless believes that "the nations of the world are committing a most terrible mistake in dealing with the Japanese...