Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaning over the officer's bed when he recovered consciousness. She helped nurse him back to health. The captain was the late Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. It was at the little girl's house that Poet Oliver Wendell Holmes found his son after the search described in his famed My Hunt after the Captain. As a Supreme Court Justice he often visited Mrs. Findlay, said that her face as a little girl was the most beautiful he had ever seen. Last week, Mrs. Findlay gave the President a first-hand account of the incident, urged...
Fortunately, in the U. S. treasury, as in an old-fashioned attic, valuable relics may be misplaced but rarely lost. Last week, after three days' frantic search, the Alaskan check turned up in a musty drawer of the General" Accounting Office where it had reposed since 1921. By this time, the House had passed Delegate Dimond's bill and it had gone to the Senate Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs. The Senate Committee decided that, since the check, a piece of national property, was so easily lost, it would be better to send a photostatic copy...
...search of the happiest subject, contemporary British novelists seldom look in their own industrial back yard, prefer instead when tired of the front-lawn and front-street side of English life to search in some other part of the world, especially where the climate is warm. As a traveler, Yorkshireman Eric Knight is no exception to the rest. As a writer he bristles with exceptions, the main one being that he has uncovered in a neglected corner of England's industrial back yard-the Yorkshire textile mill country-material for one of the sturdiest novels to cross the Atlantic...
...hours later, when Mr. Switter returned, he found the hospitals filled with dead & dying, the jails jammed with prisoners. The C. I. O. headquarters had been completely wrecked. Witness after union witness testified they had been routed from bed and arrested without benefit of search warrant. The only concealed weapon found on any of the 165 unionists arrested was one three-and-a-half-inch knife. All were examined by an immigration official but not one was found deportable...
Typical of the little company in search of fresh capital is Youngstown Steel Car Corp., which offered 55,000 shares of common stock last week through a banking group headed by Cleveland's L. J. Schultz & Co. The company's business used to consist largely of repairing and rebuilding freight cars, but since Depression has branched into trailers, truck frames, refrigerator car hatches, parts for hydraulic lifts, and a neat little sideline in old rail joint angle bars, which the company retreats and reforges until they are as good as new. Run by Youngstown's William Wilkoff...