Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in dire distress again were Columbus, Youngstown, Lima, Cleveland, most of the urban centres. Toledo shut its poverty-stricken schools, sent 40,000 children home, wondered how it would care for 5,913 unemployed persons and their dependents besides. In Cleveland, 60,000 people dependent on direct relief saw little chance of getting it. Starvation, sickness were spectres at the Thanksgiving feast...
Chapter 7: Signing Off. The Gestapo agents sent their British friends a final message on the gift set: Communication for any length of time with conceited and silly people is dull. You will understand therefore that we are giving it up. You are hereby heartily greeted by your affectionate "German opposition." THE GERMAN GESTAPO. The British operators answered: Message received. Cheerio. INMAN and WALSH...
Excepting Germany and Russia, the Great Powers acted as if a State had been set up in Angers. They sent their diplomatic envoys, including U. S. Ambassador Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., the Philadelphia socialite who was bombed out of Poland with such éclat. He promptly rented the Château de Plessis-Bourre, one of the handsomest in Angers. This 15th-Century pile is officially a historical monument in which there is no electric light, but Mr. and Mrs. Biddle seemed to enjoy groping among romantic shadows in a former residence of King Louis...
More than 40 students will have had flying instruction by the end of the week, according to William Bollay, instructor in Aerodynamics. Thirty additional men will be able to take advantage of the added quota sent last Saturday from Washington and will have their first flying experience within two weeks...
...YORK--Discussion of a national defense emergency tax injected a new note of uncertainty in the stock market last week and sent security prices tumbling to the lowest levels since September...