Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...school, sent them out of the country, packed up his own belongings and one night left Chungking secretly for Hanoi, French Indo-China, and Hong Kong. The old Oriental instincts for compromise had got the better of him, and he declared himself for "peace" with Japan. Chiang Kai-shek read him out of the Party, arrested his followers...
...gathered in a small Manhattan hall this week from California, New Mexico, the metropolitan area for three days of speeches, pseudo-scientific movies and discussion of stories with their authors. Cried Fan Will S. Sykora, from Astoria, L. I.: "Let us all work to see that the things we read in science fiction become realities." Said Leo Margulies, managing editor of Standard Magazines (Thrilling Wonder Stories, Startling Stories and Strange Stories'): "I am astonished. I didn't think you boys could be so damn sincere...
That evening the Times read the A. P. report a little more carefully than its rival, informed its 359,844 readers that Mr. Dieter had been nominated for Naperville, Ill. (pop. 5,118), "perhaps 30 ... miles from here." The Times had even called him up. "Dieter answered the telephone," reported the Times, "and revealed without hesitation that he is Edward M. Dieter, 70, pharmacist and postmaster of Naperville. . . . That's all there was to it, Tribune. Anybody could have done...
...longest continuous publishing history of any paper in the U. S. The Courant has not missed an issue since Thomas Green pulled its first from a hand press on October 29, 1764. It printed the Declaration of Independence as news, numbered George Washington among the subscribers who read the lively, eye-witness war correspondence of Israel Putnam. Republican since the Connecticut branch of the party was founded in its editorial rooms by Publisher Joseph R. Hawley, who was the first man in his State to enlist in the Civil War, and who returned a brigadier general, the Courant opposed women...
...Phenix City, Ala., a prosperous town of 13,862 inhabitants, you can buy pretty much everything in the way of standard U. S. commodities, entertainment, even a good many luxuries. But if you want to read a book in Phenix City, you must either borrow one or go across the Chattahoochee River to Columbus, Ga. Phenix City has no bookstore. It has no library either...