Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, women passengers helped Mrs. Rose Granger, 19, from a subway train, modestly formed a ring around her on the platform while she gave birth to a two-pound...
When Dutch Schultz was murdered in Newark last October, Torrio, sought for questioning, was located sunning himself in Miami. Internal revenue agents went after him in earnest, discovered that he was at the bottom of a ring which was "cutting" legal liquor, selling it under Government tax stamps. When State Department authorities sent word last fortnight that Torrio was applying again for a passport, revenue agents mailed him a decoy registered letter, arrested him at the White Plains, N. Y. post office as he appeared to collect it. Unimpressed by Torrio's lawyer, who insisted his client...
Speaking next day at the new aviation school in suburban Gatow, General Göring made a bad break by referring to Adolf Hitler as "Supreme Wrar Lord." Since such a title still has a sinister, Kaiserish smell in international noses, Minister of Propaganda Goebbels promptly scotched...
...Leipzig's famed Trade Fair last week went Reich Air Minister Göring and trainloads of important Army officers, not to gape at sample booths but to pay homage to a small young woman with curly hair and a timid voice. Though women in business are anathema to orthodox Nazis, Fraulein Martha Burger is one they cannot do without. An engineer and steel technician, she has designed a line of bombproof steel houses, and bombproof and gasproof cellars for houses already up, that have withstood dozens of tests from Germany's air force. At Leipzig last week...
...hierarchy when Most Rev. George Leo Leech became Bishop of Harrisburg, succeeding the late Bishop Philip Richard McDevitt. After a month at his new job Bishop Leech astounded his 200 priests by calling each correctly by his first name as he knelt to kiss the Episcopal ring...