Word: p
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about 1:30 p. m. Earl Durand strode into the First National Bank at Powell. He had a six-shooter on his hip, a .30-.30 rifle in his hands, pockets bulging with cartridges. Bank President Bob Nelson, his three employes and five customers reached for the ceiling. Durand grabbed $3,000 in cash, then started shooting crazily through the bank's windows and walls. "They'll plug me anyway," he told his frightened captives. When he had fired 40 or 50 shots he bound Nelson, Cashier Maurice Knutson and Teller John Gawthrop together by the wrists with...
...historically-dubious idea that wars are started for profit has long obsessed a group of Senators including Washington's Homer Bone, North Dakota's Gerald P. ("Neutrality") Nye, Missouri's Bennett Clark, Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg. "To keep democracy alive, and for other purposes," these gentlemen and 46 cosigners last week outdid themselves by sponsoring a war-tax measure written by little, pinch-faced Senator Bone...
Many an M. P., although amazed that an avowed isolationist should say so much, wondered: How could he possibly have spent 45 minutes looking for the missing page? Surely there were copies...
...terms of the N. I. P. A. offer the recipients positions for ten months from September 1939 to June 1940 with one of the major government departments in Washington. They will serve without compensation and will be expected to pay their own expenses...
Also provided for in the interneships is the opportunity to study in various fields in the American University. Tuition for special night classes will be paid by the N. I. P. A. and a large curriculum of courses in government administration will be presented...