Word: neb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also ill last week lay: Sir Austen Chamberlain, of food poisoning, in London; Governor Charles Wayland Bryan of Nebraska, of a heart attack, in Lincoln, Neb.; Leon Trotsky, of a heavy cold, in Copenhagen; Air Minister Paul Painlevé, of collapse after speaking lengthily in the Chamber of Deputies, in Paris...
Grace Abbott of Grand Island, Neb. is head of the Federal Children's Bureau...
...Burwell, Neb., Clarence Wilson, 40, bachelor farmer, fell off a windmill, broke both legs, inched back to his house, lay without food or water for eight days, on the ninth day crawled into the yard, yelled for help until neighbors came...
...begging, demanding, wangling U.S. youngsters on the world's celebrities. Last week in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel five judges (one a forgery expert) chose from the more than 1,000,000 signatures submitted, awarded prizes. First prize of $1,000 went to Thomas Leonard of Lincoln, Neb. Edward of Wales signed once, for a Michigan girl, added "Hope you win the prize" (she did not), then besought Waterman's London branch to stem the flood of letters. Most signatures of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (post-convention), Charles Spence Chaplin, Anton Joseph Cermak were disqualified as rubber-stamps...
...McCook, Neb. (pop. 6,688) Governor Roosevelt greeted Republican Senator William Norris as "the very perfect gentle knight of American progressive ideals." Declared the Democratic nominee: "Senator Norris, I go along with you because you follow in their footsteps? 'radical' like Jefferson, 'demagog' like Jackson, 'idealist' like Lincoln, 'wild' like Theodore Roosevelt, 'theorist' like Wilson." Replied Nebraska's Senior Senator: "What this country needs is another Roosevelt in the White House...