Word: retreater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...courthouse site, property owners of the proposed site on Oak Street hired Lawyer Henry Spotswood Conrad, agreed to pay him a $1,000 fee and $250 expenses to get Lawyer Scarritt to withdraw his suit. After numerous conferences Lawyer Conrad told his clients the real-estate firm would not retreat unless paid $35,350. They agreed and Lawyer Conrad drew up a contract making the deal with McCoy Land Co. The property was sold without interference...
...dozen villages, hundreds of thousands of people. Invasion's principal characters number more than 50, represent every type of noncombatant, every fortune of war. In 707 pages Author van der Meersch tells their grim four-year tale, from the first days of the invasion to the final German retreat...
Spain's civil war seemed to hinge last week upon profound deliberations by Adolf Hitler in his Bavarian retreat and on secret Anglo-French moves to sway Berlin. The German envoy accredited to the Spanish White Government at Burgos is General Wilhelm Faupel. Last week he arrived in Berlin from Spain in a cloud of rumors that White Generalissimo Franco was asking an additional 60,000 German soldiers to help...
...featured such curious things as that the Radical Madrid Government had just won the Grand Prize in its own lottery; that middle-of-the-road Spanish President Manuel Azaiia was now refusing to have anything to do with proletarian Premier Largo Caballero who remained at Valencia. In a mountain retreat back of Barcelona, the President said: "I feel better here reading a great deal and walking with my wife...
...Mureth anyway. What Employer Luth's prophetic dream meant, Author Lawrence does not say, lets readers decide for themselves whether his employes are hot on his heels because they are angry at him, or whether he merely thinks so because he is the head man in a general retreat...