Word: last
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right. Last week the jury acquitted Albert Maverick's boy Maury. Mavericks cheered, wept, stamped, went home. Maury Maverick went back to the Mayor's office. The Maverick clan, and many another Texan, thought he would probably weather worse political trials...
...prominent Communists, Nicholas Dozenberg, a founder of the U. S. Communist Party, and Robert William Wiener, treasurer of the Party,* were arrested last week. Dozenberg's alleged offense: lending his naturalization papers for Earl Browder's use in 1921. Wiener's alleged offense: illegal residence in the U. S. Plump, balding Robert Wiener pleaded not guilty before a Federal judge in Manhattan, heard a U. S. Attorney call him "the rankest sort of impostor," charge that under the aliases of Wiener, Weiner, A. Benson, A. Blake, he was really Welwel Warszower from Russia...
...Communist fund drive in New York State raised $205,000 in the last 100 days. Gloated Communist Money-Raiser Alex Leith: ''Every time Dies opens his mouth now, our mail gets heavier, and all the envelopes have good news inside...
...Last week John Lewis' trouble shooter, Philip Murray, assembled the top officers of C. I. O.'s automobile union for a seminar in Pittsburgh. Subject: order in the ranks. Object: to make the sometimes disorderly United Automobile Workers of America behave, lest the union's ill repute further besmirch the whole...
...transatlantic flight ended in Flushing Bay a few minutes after the takeoff; he cracked up Haile Selassie's own plane; he never got to China because he collapsed in a hotel chair, broke his arm. Last week Colonel Julian made his altitude record: he flew to the defense of Father Divine himself...