Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Insull Monstrosity." Next stop was Portland. Governor Roosevelt's reception was noticeably cooler than in Seattle. His third full-length address was on the power issue. Even the Republican Press conceded that it was factually sound and rang true. He began with a slashing attack upon "certain great private utility corporations" for what he called their "systematic, subtle, deliberate and unprincipled campaign of misinformation, propaganda, lies and falsehood." He charged them, in addition, with overcapitalization, rigging State public service commissions, selfish nearsightedness. He specified...
Good soldiers die too easily. This sad fact has been commented upon by the commander of every army from Julius Caesar to Chiang Kaishek. In the Shanghai battles of last winter against Japan, the19th Route Army, best drilled, best equipped, made a name for itself that rang around the world, but in building that name, 8,000 good soldiers died and had to be replaced by recruits. The new recruits did not drill as well, and they had ideas of their own, no part of a good soldier's equipment. The 19th Route Army is still China...
...minutes later a shot rang out from the floor above. Walker, according to his story, dashed up to a sleeping porch. There he found his friend unconscious, blood streaming from a bullet hole in his head. Over him bent his wife, throatily sobbing: "Smith's shot himself!" They rushed him to a hospital. While he was on the operating table, his wife was given a spare room. Nurses later reported that they found Mrs. Reynolds and Walker tussling drunkenly on the floor, heard her say she was pregnant. At dawn Smith Reynolds was dead...
...first time in many a month burned far into the night. Reflecting the swollen volume, a boomlet developed in Exchange seats. A Big Board seat sold for $120.000 against a low last May of $62,000. Curb memberships jumped from $16,500 to $28.500. "How late is the tape?" rang familiarly around board rooms. On the two biggest days the U. S. Treasury gained nearly $235,000 in transfer taxes. Total value.of all stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange was boosted $10,000,000,000.00. Entering this week, the rising market began to look like an oldtime balloon...
...Japanese-North American Buddhist Federation. Wearing the "kesa" (embroidered collar) of his rank, he presided at "Koshukwai" (lectures on Buddhism's history and meaning) which took upmost of the convention's time. Lesser priests put on the "Juzu" (sacred beads representing the followers of Buddha), rang gongs, burned incense, read from the scriptures on each side of the gilt altar, decorated with pink, white and green cakes and many flowers. When religious matters were disposed of, the 400 convened Buddhists ate of Japanese victuals and, like their Christian brothers in convention, romped politely...