Word: number
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cissie Patterson's chain gang departed, but she continued her fight with the President over the number of trees involved. At his press conference he said she was flimflamming the public to get circulation. Her last word was a cartoon showing a disreputable figure labeled "Flimflam Politics" saying, "All right, so we LIED to you-so what? And we're cutting down your damn CHERRY TREES...
...Home Owners' Loan Corp. in Manhattan, who had sued for and won in the State courts a refund of $57.28 collected from him by New York on his $2,246.66 HOLC salary for 1934. Attorney General Bennett argued that HOLC is but one of a "constantly mounting number of new operations which have come to be regarded as having some relationship to government," but are certainly not essential to the existence...
...city unmolested. This trick sometimes boomerangs. Recently 8th Route Army General Lin Piao, regarded as the ablest Chinese strategist now in the field, returned from a raid with 600 of his men who were dressed as Japanese, mounted on Japanese horses. Their own guerrillas ambushed them, wounded a number, including General Lin, before their identity was established...
...train to Plymouth, New Hampshire Sunday morning, leaving the North Station at 9 o'clock and arriving back in Boston at 10:45 o'clock the same evening. Although the past two seasons showed a drop in passengers carried, the Boston & Maine has no intention of cutting the number of Snow Trains...
Coach Mikkola, when interviewed Wednesday, was much concerned over new men. "No position in near being filled," he said. "Our squad is never cut at any time during the year, and I can't count the number of men who never ran nor entered any field event, who in the first year earned a place on the team and eventually received their letter...