Word: siders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important did Soviet authorities con-sider the case last week that Chief Public Prosecutor André Vishinsky conducted it himself. Though Semenchuk cried shrilly that he was a visitor from Mars, manifested other symptoms of madness. Prosecutor Vishinsky was clearly out to make Wrangel's Governor an example to other remote Red bosses prone to autocracy...
...sooner had the House resolved itself into the .committee of the whole to con-sider the Social Security Bill than Speaker Byrns descended from the rostrum and proceeded to read the House a lecture on time-wasting. He warned members that important bills were coming up, that they had no right to "adjourn as we did yesterday at 4:15 in the afternoon." With emphatic swings of his arm he declared...
...Because Knickerbocker Village is also Manhattan's first experiment in government-financed, low-cost housing, RFC's Chairman Jesse H. Jones, East-Sider Alfred E. Smith, many a minor wig gathered in its banner-decked playground to mark the day. Said Al Smith: "I was tempted to swap the Empire State Building." Chairman Jones thumped the tub of slum clearance. Informed that the first of the two units was already 95% rented, while the second unit (to be opened Dec. 1) was 50% rented, he waved an expansive hand at the holiday bunting, declared: "I know of no ... safer investment...
...accept this new arrangement under protest." ¶ Morris Abraham Cohen, English-born Jewish trick-shot pistol expert, was gazetted by the Canton Government last week a Brigadier General. Brigadier General Cohen says he was born in London, says it with the accent and gestures of a New York East Sider. From 1921 until the death of great Dr. Sun Yat-sen in 1925, "Sure Shot" Cohen was the personal bodyguard of the Father of the Chinese Republic...