Word: lester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agreed not to invade the Polish Corridor adjoining Danzig. Last week Danzig Nazi gangsters hounded and harried candidates of other parties so mercilessly that Danzig Socialists and members of Danzig Catholic Center Party had to hold their political rallies just outside the Free City on Polish soil. Irish Sean Lester, the resident High Commissioner of the League of Nations in Danzig, tried to uphold the right of free speech last week but was met with guffaws by new Danzig Nazi Premier Dr. Arthur Greiser...
...Unless you mend your ways, Mr. Lester," contemptuously chortled Dr. Greiser, "you may have to get out of Danzig, just as the League's meddling Commissioner in Saarbrucken had to get out of the Saar...
...Engaged. Lester Stoefen, 23, professional tennist; and Ruth Moody, 18, Denver-born film actress, niece of Banker Albert Henry Wiggin...
Might smoking disagree with a baby before it was born? asked Antioch College's Drs. Lester Warren Sontag and Robert F. Wallace. While pregnant women who had smoked for years and one who never before had smoked, puffed cigarets, the Antioch doctors held stethoscopes to the mothers' abdomens, listened to the beatings of the baby hearts. Smoking promptly sent the fetal heart beats up from 144 to 149 beats a minute. This made the Antioch doctors conclude: "It is not improbable that maternal smoking during pregnancy may have permanently harmful effects upon the child...
...joined the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. His professional hockey career started in 1926 when he signed up with the New York Rangers. The next season it nearly ended when, in the playoffs for the Stanley Cup, a flying puck cut his eye. The Rangers' manager, Lester Patrick, playing goal for the first time in his life, finished the game in Chabot's place, helped his team...