Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cursing from the courtroom. Judge Harry S. McDevitt ordered the arrest of Paul Petrillo (cousin) and the widow of a poisonee (two other widows were already in custody), and investigators began exhuming 70 bodies in graveyards of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York. Object: to prove that Petrillo during the past ten years had run an arsenic epidemic to collect upwards of $100,000 in insurance...
Among Republicans, Thomas Edmund Dewey rose from 27% (before the Hines conviction-see below) to 50%; Michigan's Vandenberg with 15% kept second place, ahead of Ohio's Taft (13%). Herbert Hoover piled up 5%, sped past Alf Landon to capture fourth place...
...past 20 years the people of no big power have wanted to go to war-not even those of Germany, whose dictator keeps telling them not to worry because no one dares fight the mighty Third Reich. One of the factors constantly working against a general European war is the lack among Europe's most powerful nations of a disposition to fight...
...activities have been to applaud Dictator Mussolini when he rose to speak, cheer him when he sat down and pass hastily and without debate any and all bills he wanted passed. Although 100% Fascist and a complete rubber stamp, the Chamber nevertheless remained a relic of the recent parliamentary past...
...series of imaginary newspaper and radio reports of what Isenberg would like to see happen in Europe, the booklet states that Hitler resigned, saying. "As I sit here before this microphone, I am overcome with the realization of the sius I have committed in the past...