Word: packed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political organization, unlike a business organization, generally closes ranks defensively about a member whose honesty comes in question. But last week the Republican party opened wide its ranks to let Claudius Hart Huston, chairman of the national committee, stalk out of office. Mr. Huston wondered aloud why the political pack had deserted him after the discovery of his temporary deposit of Muscle Shoals lobby funds in his private stock margin account...
Throughout the ordeal, however, MacDonald stuck to the main outline of his recantation. He claimed that police Captain Charles Goff had forced his identification of Billings and Mooney in the city prison, that District Attorney Fickert had put "a whole pack of lies" into his head which he repeated to the trial juries. Said he: "Fickert told me if I would stand by the identification of Billings and Mooney I'd get the biggest slice of the reward." Asked Justice Preston mockingly: "You swore this at the time God was judging you to be a liar" MacDonald only wept...
...Evanston, Ill., Walter E. Bushman, a small man, appeared at the police station, asked several policemen to come home with him and persuade his 230-lb. wife to get off the top of his trunk so he could open and pack it, leave...
Aware is the expedition of the obstacles to such a route, worst of which are on the Canadian side, where perilous Hudson Bay fogs and shifting pack ice beset the air traveler. (No one has ever flown from Greenland across the Davis Strait to Baffin Land.) It is recalled that in 1924 the U. S. Army round-the-world flyers required 19 days to pierce the fogs between Keland and Frederiksdal, on the south coast of Greenland; and that last summer Capt. A. Ahrenberg finally abandoned an attempted Sweden-to-New York flight after taking a month between Sweden...
...Tech had pulled out in front, nervy enough to be pacemakers for the big Washington crew that was the favorite, the picture-book Navy crew that was the main hope of the East, the formidable dark-horse, California. At a mile and a half Cornell came out of the pack and at the end of the second mile caught Tech. Nobody took this move seriously because up to that time nobody had considered Cornell seriously except to say that they were too heavy; that the stroke, blonde Robert McCrae Wilson Jr.. 19, suddenly recruited from the third varsity when...