Word: origination
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Organization and origin of last week's raid read like an early cinema scenario. In the latter part of 1936, a Narcotics Bureau agent-whom Major Williams refused to name last week on the grounds that it might cause reprisals-arrested a Chinese on a minor charge in Seattle. The culprit talked freely about a much more interesting compatriot named Chin Joo Hip in Butte, Mont. Chin Joo Hip, a wrinkled, cadaverous tongman with drooping white mustaches, received a call from the agent, who pretended to be the nephew of a rich Pacific Coast gangster. Presently they were fast...
Such an outburst by the Spanish Lenin loomed this week as of capital importance to Anarchists, Socialists, Trotskyists and Stalinists as well as to neutral observers of Leftist and Rightist Spain. Defense Minister and Boss Indalecio Prieto of the Leftist Government is in origin a Spanish middle-class politician of the old school. That he should be bossing a regime which in Socialist eyes is featured today by a ''reign of terror," secret police activity as in Russia and a betrayal of the "revolu-tion"* as originally conceived by such Spanish Leftists as Largo Caballero, provided Europe last...
...zither playing. There last week the United Zither Players of America gathered for its Tenth National Congress and, proudly led by the Rochester Zither Club, climaxed a three-day meeting with a grand plinkety-plink concert. There are 100 zither players in Rochester, all of Teutonic origin...
...Governor's eagerness to disregard the Rhode Island Supreme Court is rather surprising when we recall the origin of the present court. Mr. Quinn cannot complain like Mr. Roosevelt that he is balked by Republican judges who were selected by his predecessors...
...head out in the hall to order ham & eggs; refused a pile of Pittsburgh Post-Gazettes offered by William Herman Mylander, Washington representative of the Paul Block paper, just in case Mr. Justice Black had not read the expose of his Klan activities in the paper of their origin; failed to recognize in spite of his 10 gal. hat Post-Gazette Reporter Ray Sprigle who had written the series; and retired to break his fast with Editor Max Lerner of the Nation, which had just received a demand for retraction from Publisher Block's attorney because it had accused...