Word: runaways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Motoring home from mass last week with prayer book and rosary in his hands, Colonel Elisha Francis Riggs, chief of the insular police, heard a shot, gave chase to a man in a car. When police halted the runaway, another Nationalist popped up beside Colonel Riggs's car, shot him thrice, once through his prayer book, once through his chest, once through his head. He died within the hour...
...industrial stock averages closed at 147. Next day Federal Reserve Board Governor Marriner Stoddard Eccles publicly pronounced the market sound, declaring: "I think there is an element of safety and of strength in the fact that security purchases are being financed out of cash. . . . I am doubtful whether a runaway stock-market situation can proceed very far without being reflected in an increased demand for borrowed funds...
...Paterson, N. J., returned home after a runaway trip to Manhattan, Max Wilemchik, 14, told newshawks, "I lost my dog from the garage after I locked the door myself. The pup was smart. Still, he couldn't unfasten the door himself. I figured it all out and it seemed to me that mom and pop gave the pup away, because he tracked mud into the delicatessen. You know how that made me feel. If they didn't like my dog they didn't like me. I'm going to look for my dog. I think...
...gold standard will return to that standard; 3) that we will not further debase our own gold monetary unit but will continue with our so-called 59? gold dollar." These assumptions implied that "within a reasonable time we will balance our budget and will thereby avoid any runaway inflation...
Five years ago. intersectional games were the football fashion. This season, collegiate publicists have taken to ballyhooing revivals of "old rivalries," as cheaper and more interesting. Major revival of last week, Yale's first visit to Philadelphia since 1889, started out as a runaway for Penn, 20-to-12 at the half; ended 31-to-20 for Yale...