Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guffey arrived . . . fighting mad. . . .'All bets are off,' said Guffey. 'I am a candidate for Governor, come hell or high water. . . .' Matt McCloskey raced across the room, shook his fist under Guffey's nose. . . . Red with rage, Dave Lawrence, who the night before took himself out of the race, jumped into the free-for-all. . . . 'Now I understand,' he bellowed, 'why I didn't get the support for my candidacy from persons who . . . should have been in my corner...
...report maintained that in the course of the excitement "a cook burned his finger and a pot of breakfast mush crashed to the floor." All spectators agreed that Senator Guffey stalked out of the room. When he reappeared after taking a walk along the Susquehanna, he announced that he had reconsidered and would give "wholehearted support" to the ticket after all. But later that day Miner Lewis flatly announced in Washington that, ticket or no ticket, he would support Miner Kennedy for Governor. Did this mean, newshawks asked, that C. I. O.'s half-million Pennsylvania voters would walk...
...Austrian independence, called Vienna by telephone and told Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg that all was at an end between them, Austria must throw herself on Adolf Hitler's mercy. So Schuschnigg crossed the border, to Bavaria, and at the Fuhrer's mountain chalet was shown into a room where he was left alone to read a set of German General Staff plans for the invasion of Austria. Several strapping Austrian Nazis entered, shook their fists and bellowed threats at Dr. Schuschnigg. Four German generals next tried to crack him with menaces of war. The third degree was then...
Eight weeks ago when four "Mayfairites"-all public school men and one the son of a retired brigadier general-had invited a Cartier's salesman to their room in a West End hotel, knocked him on the head with a mallet and relieved him of $65,000 worth of jewels, the outraged British public demanded the young men get their punishment. Get it they did, last week. Lord Hewart, the stern Lord Chief Justice, handed down their sentences: for the four an aggregate of 16½ years in prison, for one 20 lashes, for another 15, with...
...year apiece, 1,510,000 U. S. citizens are entitled, if sick, to 21 days board and nursing in a semiprivate hospital room, use of maternity delivery room, ordinary X-ray and laboratory examinations, anesthesia. For $18 a year man & wife may get the same accommodation, for $24 a year an entire family (TIME, April 6, 1936, et seq.). From those fees 15% goes for hospitals' charges, 12% for administration expenses of the service, the balance into reserve. During the four years since these hospital services developed subscribers paid $7,681,517 to hospitals. $1,230,000 to administration...