Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Solidly backed by his vice-chairmen- Connecticut's longtime Boss John Henry Roraback. Oregon's Ralph E. Williams, rich and buxom Mrs. Worthington Scranton of Pennsylvania and Mrs. John E. Hillman of Colorado-Chairman Hamilton did not rise to the Fish bait. On his own behalf he said only: "I have no particular defense to make of the last campaign. There were lots of errors, but I said at the start there would...
...matter what leaders, was in course of shifting its political centre of gravity from Right to Left as the necessary prelude to enlisting Soviet aid for a Chinese war with Japan. The Young Marshal's broadcast was clearly a clarion call to 450,000,000 Chinese to rise against 84,000,000 Japanese, and it seemed to suit the Nanking Government that this tocsin should be sounded with loudest fanfare...
...three northwestern provinces of the island suddenly liquefied. Through those provinces-Nueva Vizcaya, Isabela, Cagayan-flows the Rio Grande de Cagayan, biggest river of the Philippines, due north through 200 miles of rich farming country. The typhoon passed, the rain stopped and then came calamity. The Cagayan began to rise...
Parallel to Walter Briggs's rise in Detroit baseball have been his fortunes in the manufacture of automobile bodies. The same year he was lucky in getting World Series tickets he joined B. F. Everitt Co., pioneer auto trimmer. When Owner Barney Everitt and two friends started the E. M. F. Co. (motor cars), Mr. Everitt did not think it altogether ethical to run a competing business of his own, so he made a deal with his able employe, Walter Briggs, to take over the trimming plant, which was soon called Briggs Mfg. Co. It went on painting...
Latest reports from the Boston Weather Bureau indicate that temperatures over the weekend will rise giving possibilities of rain or a few snow flurries in Norther New England. Reports from Mt. Washington, Mr. Mansfield, Mr. Cardigan, and Gunstock Range indicate several inches of heavy snow on top of a hard crust. While reports are not favorable for the weekend's skiing, it must be remembered that last weekend conditions changed late Friday night making good skiing. This may happen again...