Word: save
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clay rowed about; Miles Brewton House (1765), where Lord Cornwallis once stayed during the Revolution. Razed was a row of ancient shells where legend places the public slave market-a matter of sore denial by Charleston historians, who say Charleston's slaves were sold in decent privacy. Unscathed save for their gardens were the mansions along South Battery, many now owned by Northerners. Storm-conscious Harry Hopkins found, when he arrived to direct Government aid, that the damage countable in dollars was about...
...Rhode Island Republicans, convening at storm-battered Providence, nominated for Governor the bearer of a name famed in many things save politics-William Henry Vanderbilt, 36, son of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt who went down with the Lüsitania. Scion Vanderbilt has dabbled in Rhode Island politics since he became a State Senator ten years ago. His mother, Mrs. Paul FitzSimmons of Newport, is Republican National Committeewoman. Accepting the nomination, Politician Vanderbilt promised he would seek neither higher office nor a second term. His opponents: Democratic Governor Robert E. ("Fighting Bob") Quinn; Walter E. O'Hara, operator of Narragansett...
...certain Manhattan radio news broadcasters. Of these. Johannes Steel, a German agent on mysterious missions in Brazil until the Nazis came into power, was the most caustic: "Good evening ladies and gentlemen. So they call it peace! . . . They call it peace because the victim, not being able to save itself from its friends, cannot face the enemy alone. They call it peace because the victor received the spoils before instead of after battle! . . . The England of Mr. Chamberlain is not the true England, the Democratic England-just as the France of M. Daladier is not the France of the Popular...
...Promptly retrieved, he resists no further. Two months later, the war ended, he is so hypnotized that he agrees to murder the returning general. By a rather far-fetched accident, the general technically commits suicide, but under circumstances which, even if believed, would in those days have failed to save even a beautiful defendant. The piling up of circumstantial evidence brings the lovers to trial. After a false confession which saves her weak-kneed lover's neck, Morganna pays the Devil his wages and goes bravely to the scaffold...
David W. Nussbaum '39, chairman of the committee to arrange the meeting emphasized that it would "neither be a rally nor a 'Save Czechoslovakia' movement" but an orderly discussion of the entire question...