Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Legislature adjourned for the night, Senator Long marched out of the chamber and started down the corridor to Governor Allen's office, flanked, as always, by his bodyguards. A young man in a white suit, lurking in a corner, stepped out into the Senator's path, shoved a small revolver against his right side, pulled the trigger. There was a muffled explosion. One of the Long bodyguards grappled with the assassin. He fired again, searing the bodyguard's thumb. Then the young man in the white suit went down under a rain of submachine gun bullets...
...measure now having been passed, ''Winnie" Churchill last week abruptly returned to the Baldwin fold, pledged ''whole hearted" support to the Government and strove to bandage his self-inflicted political wounds by the clarion announcement: "Dangers larger and nearer than Indian dangers gather on our path. . . . We have to play our part...
Another difficulty in the path of the first year man is the general preference of business houses for upperclassmen because they are more experienced in most types of work. This means that the first year men--who form only about ten per cent of the 1900 applicants at the Office--usually can not be placed in the better positions...
Last week three U. S. Circuit Courts of Appeal, second highest in the land, passed on the constitutionality of three prime New Deal measures, cleared the path to final judgment by the Supreme Court. Two measures went on their way with court curses, one with a blessing. AAA. Taking its cue from the Supreme Court, the first Federal Circuit Court in Boston found AAA's vital processing taxes as illegal as NRA's codes, and for the same reasons. A U. S. District Court had rejected the suit of receivers for Hoosac Mills Corp, to escape payment...
...Before it was played out the vein yielded $190,000,000 in pure bullion and made a onetime Irish immigrant clerk one of the richest men in the greatest get-rich-quick era in U. S. history. Like many another bonanza king, John William Mackay beat a quick & gaudy path to the capitals of Europe but he did leave an enduring monument to his amazing energy-Postal Telegraph...