Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next morning he was in Hyde Park to inspect a new firebreak in his woods, letting newshawks know that his 560-acre tract adjoining his mother's estate is not a gentleman farmer's operation run at a loss which he can deduct on his income tax return (as suggested by his district's Republican Congressman Hamilton Fish), but a timber operation (cordwood, fence posts, Christmas trees) on which he should realize a small profit. With him on this weekend was Author Emil Ludwig, biographer of the great, whose next subject is Franklin Roosevelt...
...suburban Inglewood, a few miles from Los Angeles. Little Jeanette Stephens, 8, Melba Everett, 9, and Madeline Everett, 7, started off with sandwiches for a picnic in the park as countless children in countless cities have done on countless Saturdays. As afternoon wore on and they did not return, their mothers grew uneasy. When suppertime had come and gone, Mrs. Stephens sent her little boy Garth, 7, to the park to look for them. An hour later the parents called the police. Shortly after midnight a community search was on and the disappearance of the three little girls was broadcast...
...first session of the I.C.C. and not only Mr. Watson but scores of other delegates gave the Nazi salute. But, though nearly everyone except Adolf Hitler applauded a declaration by Minister for National Economy Dr. Hjalmar Schacht that the Reichsbank wants "honest money and honest raw materials," plus a return to the gold standard to end "arbitrarily falsified currencies," the I.C.C. adjourned this week after adopting 25 non-binding "resolutions," none of them containing any suggestion by thoughtful President Watson or anyone else of lending any Kentucky gold to Germany...
While traveling in Arabia several years ago Lytle White, a student from Howard College at Birmingham, Ala.,* became chummy with Sheik Farced J. Imam. After his return home White received a letter from his friend, who "in his usual sparkling way suggested that I (White) befriend him by being on the alert for a beautiful and competent girl, who might be purchased to honor the position as chief wife of his harem...
Langdon Towne returned to Portsmouth, a bravo who could safely thumb his nose at civil authority, could even sell some pictures. Beauteous, snobbish Elizabeth, long out of his reach, began to bend towards him. Then came great Major Rogers himself, to be lionized. He treated Langdon bluffly as an old pal-and took his girl away from him. Langdon, heartbroken, sailed for London to learn more about painting. There,.four years later, he met Rogers again, still a great man but with the cracks beginning to show. Rogers was full of a scheme to find the Northwest Passage, will...