Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from 1929 to 1933. . . . More Communist heads have fallen, either literally or figuratively, during the last year than in any year which has passed since the Revolution took place two decades ago. . . . The autocrat publicly drinks in the adulation of sycophants and privately dreads the unseen assassin. . . Czar Paul of Russia was strangled by a group of officers who were apprehensive of sharing the fate of the many victims of his capricious ruthlessness...
...country's greatest reporters was out of a job last week, perhaps more to his own surprise than to that of Washington correspondents who have been his admiring friends for 15 years. Paul Y.* Anderson gave the St. Louis Post-Dispatch the best 23 of his 44 years, helped earn it great prestige and himself a $16,000 salary, finally won the 1928 Pulitzer Prize with an almost single-handed crusade which reopened the reeking Teapot Dome scandal. Paul Anderson began to think increasingly of late that his endless exploits had also earned him an independence no other Washington...
Abruptly was ended an association which began after Paul Anderson left his Smoky Mountains home in Tennessee and had finished cub's jobs on the Knoxville Journal, the St. Louis Times and Star in quick order. On his first assignment for the Post-Dispatch in 1914 he tore open the rank official corruption in East St. Louis while gamblers and police snarled telephone warnings to his wife on Saturday nights: "Look for that damned husband of yours in Cahokia Creek tomorrow morning!" On July 2, 1917 the famous race riot broke out, 34 Negroes and eight white men were...
Giant Negro Singer Paul Robeson drove from France to Barcelona, Spain. Purpose of his visit: to go to the front lines, where a huge loudspeaker will throw his voice, during a lull in fighting, to Leftist and Rightist alike...
...collectors like the easy naturalism of Brasher's duck pictures, the spirit of his long-shanked road runner, the dash of his bald eagle. Accordingly, not many bird societies and libraries, but rather sportsmen and dilettantes - like Airplane Manufacturer William Edward Boeing, Cereal Manufacturer W. K. Kellogg, Author Paul de Kruif-have bought 84 complete sets of Brasher (874 pictures of 1,200 species and subspecies). Audubon, during his lifetime, had sold 1,200 sets of his two editions...