Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turn to call on the Army extremists. As custom dictated, before naming his new cabinet, he chatted with ex-Premier Koiso and with fanatical ex-War Minister Field Marshal Gen Sugiyama. While making his round of visits, the sirens wailed, and he spent an hour or so in a shelter as U.S. bombers raked the capital...
...thus lost a huge gob of capital and hidden assets which might otherwise have been used to hasten defeated Germany's return to power. Even more important, the Swiss measures established a precedent for similar safeguards in other neutral countries where the Nazis might seek financial and personal shelter. "Lauch" Currie had British, French and U.S. associates on his mission, but he was entitled to a personal accolade when he returned to Washington. Said he : "This really ends the last hope of the Nazis for establishing themselves through the safe haven of property held abroad...
Punchboard Padres. An indictment charging an arm-long list of felonies accused the fake clergy of collecting money under false pretenses. In ten years of canvassing Manhattan for a non-existent shelter, nursery, and boys' camp, said the District Attorney, they had collected more than half a million dollars...
...houses a year for five years. The personality was the conference's dominating president, Lady Violet Bonham Carter, 57, brilliant daughter of the late great Liberal Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith. A great friend of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Lady Violet said: "As the Tories once sheltered behind the Chamberlain umbrella, they will at the next election try to shelter behind the Churchill tank. . . . I would cut off my right hand for the Prime Minister, but I would rather die than have that right hand vote Tory...
William S. Hart, hard-riding hero of the silent horse operas, who last month gave $50,000 for a park and museum in Hollywood, shelled out another $100,000-to the Connecticut Humane Society for a memorial to his sister: a shelter for stray dogs and cats in Westport, Conn...