Word: letting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Corruption. When he was Governor of Massachusetts (1925-29), Alvan Tufts Fuller charged that Boston's Mayor Malcolm E. Nichols delayed subway construction to let his friends buy up the right-of-way, then sell it to the city at exorbitant prices. He named specific instances, said: "The people of Boston are being systematically robbed by a group of ... politicians." He once referred to the Mayor as "in his usual irresponsible condition...
...face, with its heavy eyebrows, oblique eyes, long upper lip and thin mouth pushed into the ground, lying dead, his head pointed toward freedom. That was Convict Sullivan in clothes he had stripped from a captured guard. He had run through the barrage of tear gas that the troopers let loose on the screaming phalanx as it advanced across the yard toward the gate holding Warden Jennings and the other hostages as a screen in front of them. He had run toward the cars drawn up there outside the gate as decoys, their engines running. Beside him was another convict...
Carol, "Christmas Song" arranged by Holst Carol, "Now Let Us Sing" Holst Motet, "Presentation of Christ in the Temple" Eccard Congregational Hymn, "Adeste Fideles...
...Let the M. F. H. ride to covertside alone. "Keep at least a hundred feet behind him; then if a hound is emptying itself, you won't be so likely to override...
...minister preached a sermon with his hands while his daughter translated it into words for those who could hear. By sign language also a trio, silently accompanied by twisting fingers in the crowd, articulated the hymns "Abide With Me," ''Lead, Kindly Light." "O Love That Will Not Let Me Go." Died. James P. Noonan, 51, president of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, sixth vice president of American Federation of Labor; at Washington; of burns suffered when he fell asleep while smoking...