Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Garner had seen: i) that as matters were going the Court Bill was doomed to defeat and 2) that if this futile issue were forced any farther, the Party would be irrevocably split. He meant to halt events in their tracks and he did so. Next morning after the Democratic leadership fight was settled (see p. 10), Senators Barkley and Harrison were called to the White House to discuss what part of the President's Court Plan could be saved. While they were doing so Mr. Garner conferred with Senator Wheeler, the leader of the opposition, and told...
This in the House of Lords is an offense punishable by a $2,500 fine. The Archbishop of Canterbury was seen at this point tensely bending forward with his hand cupped across his forehead as though earnestly praying for Lord Moray. Other peers physically dissuaded him from striking a match, led him out to be attended for several hours by a hastily summoned physician, had him taken home at I a. m. by friends...
...Steck, one of the three prospectors-the other two were missing-had volunteered to lead the way into the gold-choked tunnel, where he had then inexplicably shot himself. There was nothing to worry about, said Sagel, because a Czechoslovak worker in the tunnel testified that he had seen the gold. The next report to reach the President, from Chief Pino, was slightly less encouraging. Arrin Thorpe, one of the two missing prospectors had been run to earth, had revealed that he had contributed $6,000 to van Steck's treasure hunt, but had not seen a speck...
...back. Casually she glanced across the turgid river, then shrieked and scurried into the ramshackle house after her husband. Dee Wyatt popped his head out, took one look, and straightway headed for the home of Bramlett Bateman, nearest white farmer. He and his wife, he informed Farmer Bateman, had seen a monster. Neither of them had been drinking. Farmer Bateman skeptically stepped over to the river, then let out a whoop. Sure enough, there was a monster, "as big as a box car and as slick as a slimy elephant without legs." Farmer Bateman rushed off to Newport, six miles...
...around the viewing spot, charged 25? admission. Signs were tacked up on all roads-"This Way to the White River Monster." The story skyrocketed when the chamber of commerce announced that Charles B. Brown, a diver from Memphis, had been hired to investigate at the spot the monster was seen...