Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That even a filibusterer can make an effective speech, however, was demonstrated when Alabama's Dixie Graves rose for her maiden Senate effort. Apologizing for her forwardness by explaining that the term to which her Governor husband appointed her would probably expire before the Anti-Lynching Bill was voted on, slender Mrs. Graves put her protest on record with ladylike dignity. Said she: ". . . If this bill is passed, you will say not merely to America but ... to the world, we have in our Union a group of Southern States that cannot or will not enforce the law. I cannot...
...Commissar Yakovleva, 52, is an Old Bolshevik, a veteran of the bloody fruitless days of 1905, who was exiled to Siberia under the Tsar. After the 1917 revolution she did valiant service in the ruthless Cheka, the pre-Ogpu secret police, gradually rose to be Vice Commissar for Education and finally Russia's first and only female Finance Commissar...
...work, King finally isolated fifty milligrams from one litre of lemon juice, and identified the pure crystals. . . . Before scientists gathered at a meeting of the American Society of Biological Chemistry at Philadelphia, King described his method and exhibited some of the crystals. Mc-Collum,* who was in the audience, rose to give King his scientific blessing for having made a great scoop for American Chem-istry...
...came last week to its annual game with Stanford, having decisively won all its games excepting a 0-0 tie with Washington. Stanford, the most erratic team on the Pacific Coast, still had a chance to win the right to play on New Year's day in the Rose Bowl by suddenly emerging in one of its "hot" spells. During the first period 85,000 fans shivered in the rain as the teams tentatively tired each other out. In the second period California's "Thunder Team" started rumbling. On two sustained drives, it carried over two successive touchdowns...
...dainty little Rose Markward married a knit-goods salesman named Charles Briggs Knox who had precisely $11 left after he had paid the minister. By 1889 the thrifty Knoxes had saved $5,000, invested every cent of it in a tiny gelatine works at Johnstown, N. Y. Last week the 325 employes of the Knox gelatine works joined in presenting 80 yellow roses in a Tiffany vase to Rose Markward Knox as "a birthday remembrance and a token of love, loyalty and appreciation from her business family." This was no empty gesture, for Mrs. Knox, despite her 80 years, still...