Word: richards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meanwhile on the Eastern Front, Northern Sector, Japan won a battle of words which has been dragging on in Tokyo since July 15: the parleys on Tientsin (where 59-year-old Widow Mary Frances Richard, a U. S. citizen, last week had her face slapped for sassing a sentry). Japan did not capture the objective she seemed to want-British acquiescence in Japanese control of North China currency; but she did achieve what she really wanted-a breakdown of the parleys. The British Government made its first strong stand in the whole engagement by firmly refusing to discuss the currency...
...sooner had the complaint been issued than Hearst Magazines Vice President Richard Emmett Berlin hit the deck. Promising to fight the case through the courts if necessary, he snapped...
...Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis and Bride Hope Dare were invited to appear as sideshow freaks in Believe-It-Or-Not Ripley's Odditorium in Manhattan and at a New York World's Fair concession...
...confused with Good Citizen John Doe's cousin Richard...
...Richard Kettlewell, one of the first men Henry Ford hired when he was preparing to enter commercial automobile production in 1902, later formed a tool, die and pattern business which earned him as much as $500,000 a year before it crashed during Depression I. Now he is a sort of free-lance automobile salesman...