Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louisville, the President sent Secretary Marvin McIntyre to represent him at the funeral of the Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Robert Worth Bingham, who died suddenly last week in Baltimore...
...Passed and sent to conference the Pope-McGill Farm Bill...
...members, a deathlike silence spread through the chambers, enveloped the normally chattering galleries. The House was voting on a motion to recommit the Black-Connery Wages & Hours Bill to the Labor Committee "for further study and revision." Judging from previous experience, most Congressmen felt that if the bill was sent back to committee, it would probably never reemerge. After five long weeks of fruitless wrangling, Congress was finally taking its first conclusive action on one of the four items which Franklin Roosevelt had called it into extraordinary session to pass...
...Aragon at Leftist Valencia. While the world awaited a Rightist drive, Leftist troops under General Sebastian Pozas took the offensive. Surging forward through a blizzard in a surprise attack, the Leftists avoided a frontal assault on Teruel itself, heavily fortified by the Rightists for over a year. Instead they sent from north & south two columns accompanied by tanks and planes to nip the line of communications behind the city. By the fourth day Teruel was surrounded, despite counter-attacks from the garrison of 60,000 Rightists, despite attempts of Generalissimo Franco to force relief troops through. Into the snowy streets...
...read: "I assume that a theoretical breakdown of considerable magnitude has taken place. ..." With Allentown plunged into theoretical darkness, demand was made that the plant produce power immediately. There were only five men in the plant and the nearest skilled help was 200 miles away in Williamsport. Superintendent Fenstermacher sent a frantic call to his company's 23-story Allentown office building. Vice President N. S. Reinicker hurried over with 20 elevator operators who crawled impetuously inside the boilers to start fires with kindling wood. Two hours later Lawyer Kelley telephoned Mr. Beamish that the men were "working like...