Word: personent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nominate New York City's Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia for 1937 Man of the Year because he was the first person ever to tie the bell of doom around the neck of that nine-lived Tammany cat two times...
...worried was the U. A. W. high command by the possibility of the current restlessness developing into a general G. M. strike that the full executive committee was summoned last week into emergency session, and John L. Lewis dispatched a personal representative to attend. After an all-night meeting the faction-torn executive committee broke up for breakfast, went groggily to bed. Meantime a U. A. W. underling went out to the Fisher plant, learned that the rebels were under the firm impression that Homer Martin was scared to speak to them in person. Attempting to report this...
Originally it was believed that Burgess had either committed suicide by jumping in the Charles River or had met with foul play at the hands of an unknown person. However, police are now discarding both of these theories, because, as Lieutenant Kiniry said, the victim's body has not been discovered, hence both of these ideas seem implausable...
...reports of several persons that they had heard shouts and cries for help early Sunday morning near the river have also been disregarded. An intexieared woman was found there and it appeared that the cries had been coming from her rather than from a drowning person...
Perhaps the outstanding thing which the new student notices about the library there is its system for guaranteeing that no books are removed from the building which are not checked out in the regular way. At the only two exits are stationed guards who inspect the books of every person passing out of the library to see that no one is running off with a book illegally...