Word: overly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Bigelow Plan of Ohio, calling for a $50-a-month pension after the age of 60, went down, 1,527,577 to 460,537. Parimutuel went in in New York, setting Pundit Mark Sullivan a brooding: if you check gambling on the stock exchange, does it come surging back...
Victor. Only national figure to emerge from the California election was Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Fortnight ago the ex-sports writer landed in Los Angeles and began sending out appalled columns: "This community lives under ether and utters weird cries in its waking dreams." Westbrook Pegler was alarmed, not because a...
He reached his hand into St. Louis, Newark, Atlantic City. He spread his power over the newborn labor rackets. He built a $65,000 walled fortress in Florida on Palm Island, near Miami. He turned up at theatres, thick lips puckered, flanked by watchful bodyguards. Honest men patted him gingerly...
"The Germans, having informed The Netherlands and Belgium that an attack of extreme violence was scheduled to start before November 15, asked what would be the attitude of the Low Countries in case of mass flights over their territory with the possibility of more or less forced landings and more...
Last week, with Nazi troops and airplanes still massing just across the frontier, with the Nazi press barraging The Netherlands for not fighting harder against Great Britain's sea blockade, and with a possible Nazi threat about airplanes hanging over Queen Wilhelmina's head (see p. 17), The...