Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trenches] will be aimed at by all means. Fighting . . . in extended war areas . . . will cause casualties in large spaces . . . high numbers." Major Brandi estimated that in brief, strongly resisted attacks, daily casualties per 100 fighting men would be as high as 15, in prolonged battle, five to seven for attackers, four to six for defenders; that 20% of the wounded would be gas cases (compared...
...Holt of Kokomo, Ind. might have been among the mayors testifying in Washington had he not been turned out of office by Kokomo's voters last November. Last week, Olin R. Holt was convicted, with five other Kokomen, of diverting WPA labor to private enterprise. Mr. Holt spent seven months in Leavenworth eight years ago for protecting bootleggers, regained his civil rights in 1934 when Franklin Roosevelt gave him a full pardon...
...candidate for President, Jim Farley has one big liability: to the U. S. he is the personification of patronage and cheap politics in the New Deal. He has also one great asset: his personal hold on the party machinery, seven years of camaraderie with the politicians who will control votes in the next Democratic convention...
...State to sell services. "We must export," recently said Herr Hitler, a legitimate heir to this tradition, "or die." In the rush to catch up to western industrial powers, Germany has tried ever since 1871 to syncopate history. A patron saint among German economists is Friedrich List, who spent seven years in the U. S., learned to admire Alexander Hamilton's protectionist philosophy and went home to write his National System of Political Economy (1841). While Prussia was busy consolidating the German nation by successive wars with Denmark, Austria and France, no one paid much attention to List...
...gift is for a trial period of three years, after which it may be extended. Paul J. Sachs, professor of Fine Arts and Associate Director of the Fogg Art Museum, will chairman the fellowship committee of seven...