Word: neb
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Visiting McCook, Neb., Jack Dempsey paid a call on McCook's leading citizen, 79-year-old Senator George W. Morris, The Senator eyed Jack's dashing sombrero, and remarked that it was a fine hat. "Let's trade," suggested Jack. Out walked Boxer Dempsey in the Senator's prairie-blown grey felt...
...short 20,000, long 80,000 shares. Three years later his second wife divorced him and married a onetime Prohibition agent. Later, to satisfy her debts, he sold his $1,350,000 estate at Great Neck, L. I. for $169,000. For his third wife, he took an Omaha, Neb. brewer's daughter, Mrs. Harriet Metz Noble, in 1933. A year later he was in bankruptcy -his fourth, for $2,259,000. At 56, he was back where he started...
...Chadron, Neb...
...dreamer and mystic. There was nothing quite like it in U. S. political history. Three weeks ago the candidate opened with his acceptance speech in Des Moines, in which he damned Republicans as the party of appeasement. Then he spoke in twelve Illinois communities, moved on to Weeping Water, Neb. and so followed his methodical, patient, unheralded path into 41 cities and towns that had gone for Roosevelt in 1936. Other men got the headlines-chief among them, Franklin Roosevelt. Other men drew the crowds-notably, Wendell Willkie...
...Fremont, Neb...