Word: nights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Night before he spoke his mind, the U. S. Maritime Commission in Washington announced its conditional approval of the transfer of eight ships of the United States Lines to the flag of the Republic of Panama. Banned from belligerent ports, banned from their regular North Atlantic runs because of the combat-areas provision of the Neutrality Act*, these vessels could travel to these ports under the Panama flag, could, moreover, carry arms. And although President Roosevelt announced he was holding up the transfer pending investigation, he expressed his opinion that the transfer did not violate the Neutrality Act because...
...Eugene Booze, Mound Bayou's richest citizen, owner of thousands of acres of cotton and timber land, the end of all arguments came last week. After his sister-in-law's shooting, he was looked on askance by many a citizen of Mound Bayou. One night last week somebody shot him from ambush. John Thomas, Mound Bayou's marshal, declared the shooting was done by persons unknown. All he knew was that Old Man Booze was dead...
...hold the easy pickings of bootlegging, the U. S. underworld went to war. It was an internecine affair of ambush and the double cross. Along Jersey highways from the shore, where rum runners landed their cargoes, runners and highjackers fought it out in the night. In New York City, men were shot discreetly in basement saloons. In Detroit and St. Louis, guns banged on street corners, men died at high noon...
Joysome tidings reached the ears of hundreds of students supporting the Harvard Thanksgiving Day Committee yesterday in the form of an announcement by Roy L. Westcott, manager of the University dining halls, that a complete turkey dinner will be served Thanksgiving night, this coming Thursday...
Although delighted with the historical aspect of Boston and Cambridge, Miss Hagen finds night-life here lacking in variety and excellence, as well as liveliness...