Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends read your report and have supplied me with new pairs. The $20,000,000 with which I am credited is entirely a myth but since your article appeared I have received wires and letters from acquaintances of years gone by requesting immediate loans. I believe I am also safe in stating that I have been given the opportunity to finance at least half of the new inventions which have patents now pending...
...condemned to life imprisonment and the rest were given an aggregate of 1,186 years in jail. Two kidnappers committed suicide and two were lynched. Last week Department of Justice operatives added fresh laurels to their excellent record with a quick catch in Kidnap Case No. 32 and the safe return of the victim in Case...
...Hermann Wilhelm Göring. He embarrassed everyone by hailing King Alexander as a dictator-which indeed His Majesty was-and strongly implying that the Jugoslav Government had friendly ties with Nazi Berlin. In ruthless, effective Balkan fashion the police of Belgrade proceeded to make Alexander's funeral safe. Over 6,500 suspects and near-suspects were thrown into jail. Lest someone try to take a crack at General Goring every German immigrant in the capital was put under house arrest. Despite incessant rains the carrying of umbrellas was barred. Ditto walking sticks and bouquets of flowers...
...resurge of that spirit which the name of Von Kluck connotes--that spirit which drove Prussia on in 1914, under frenzied leaders and wild ambitions, till her armies were sweeping East and West across Europe like huge machines, and general staffs and supreme commands directed the human slaughter from safe posts in the rear...
...were mild; when he heard that one Mrs. Stevens' house was being made a target for Northern guns while the lady was busily tending the wounded inside, he exclaimed: I wish these people would let Mrs. Stevens alone!" And when Hooker's beaten army had made a safe get away after Chancellorsville, Lee exploded in a mild steam: "Why, General Pender! That is the way you young men always do. You allow these people to get away. I tell you what to do, but you don't do it!" Author Freeman's half-length portrait shows...