Word: loyall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last winter members of the Loyal Order of Moose and of the Fraternal Order of Eagles complained to the New York World-Telegram that these organizations were running large lotteries with small prizes. Someone, it appeared, was making an unholy profit. The alert World-Telegram turned the complaints over to Federal District Attorney Medalie for investigation. Last week the Federal Grand Jury in Manhattan indicted Pennsylvania's Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, Conrad Henry Mann, president of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, five other individuals and Western Union Telegraph Co. on charges of operating interstate lotteries. Conspiracy...
...squad of Civil Guards from Cordoba. By nightfall General Sanjurjo was in a panic. Reinforcements from the south had not arrived. Emissaries he sent to nearby towns were caught and jailed. At midnight he summoned General Gonzales y Gonzales, delivered his command to him. Then he collected nine loyal lieutenants including his son, piled them into two automobiles, fled toward the Portuguese frontier. At daybreak in Huelva a sleepy police mannamed Joaquin Segovia was stopped by two cars, asked the way to Portugal. Officer Segovia raised his rifle. Without more ado General Sanjurjo hopped out of the first car, shook...
...Chinese Communism. The former goes to great lengths to break down the Family, with easy divorce and state nurseries. The latter uses the Family, strongest force in Chinese life, as the base of its system. Communist spokesmen in China last week insisted that they have 50,000,000 loyal adherents in the eight affected provinces...
Editorially Col. Knox has made the paper fresher, breezier, has gone after the newsstand buyer with pretty-girl pictures and sports news on front and back pages. Also, he has made it a loyal Administration organ...
...their own Golden Age. The steady splendor of the ceremony that opened California's first Olympic Games last week was the expression of a feeling which oldtime Greeks would have understood. It ended in the quiet ritual of the Olympic oath, to "take part in the Olympic Games in loyal competition, respecting the regulations which govern them and desirous of participating in them in the true spirit of sportsmanship for the honor of our country and the glory of sport." Handsome Lieut. George C. Calnan of the U. S. Navy, selected because he has been on four U. S. Olympic...