Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your information may I state that the accident took place at approximately 3:05 p. m. on the afternoon of Jan. 10, 1938 and that the Bureau of Air Commerce inspector, Mr. A. D. Niemeyer, sent a telegram to Northwest Airlines at 3:59 p. m. on Jan. 11, 1938 from Bozeman, Mont., grounding such planes until further notice. That evening, a confirmation order was sent to the airline company from the Washington office, confirming the action of Inspector Niemeyer...
...working under me and whom the Government paid less than I thought they were worth. Part of it went to charities. The latter practice has been a source of a great deal of embarrassment since I became a private citizen. As long as I was President, for example, I sent to the San Francisco Welfare Board [presumably Publisher Scott meant the Community Chest] a check every year for $10,000 from my salary. . . . But the folks in San Francisco got in the habit of thinking that was my regular contribution, and have asked me for it every year since...
...three got hastily into their clothes and were taken to Philadelphia's City Hall. Dixie's bail set a Philadelphia record: $300,000. Next day, as legal haggling about extradition began, detectives let Miss Dare and Mr. Davis have luncheon together. A tray was sent in from a restaurant nearby...
...grown. Its development, described graphically by Leftist Volunteer Ralph Bates in the New Republic four months ago, was gradual. Other Madrileños, in the frantic first days of the capital's defense, saw that the men of the Fifth Regiment were actually being drilled before being sent into the lines, that it seemed to have officers whose commands were obeyed, that its supplies arrived promptly. Volunteers hustled to join the Fifth. From the beginning of the war, the able organizers of the Fifth preached the necessity of a centralized Leftist Army under a "unified command." Despite its size...
...hrer at the point of capitulation, the whole course of current German history would have been altered. Herr Hitler, with his mystique momentarily shattered, decided in the greatest excitement not to call a session of the Reichstag which he was to have addressed. He might next have sent for General von Fritsch and capitulated, but instead he sent for Nazi Heinrich Himmler, chief of the Secret Political Police, and General von Fritsch, the Army commander-in-chief, was soon reported placed under arrest. Whether it was ordinary arrest, or house arrest or arrest in the bosom of an officers...