Word: sidetracking
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Interviewed in his office in Langdell Hall the former SEC chairman and that he was glad to return to Harvard after an absence of four years. Once started on legal subjects, it was difficult to sidetrack the Dean to matters of his private life...
...which not a shot was heard another furious bombardment was launched in which correspondents counted a shell every ten seconds. Across the Straits of Gibraltar from Spanish Morocco, Generalissimo Franco rushed 14,000 more troops, some of them foreign volunteers and tatterdemalion striplings. In a few weeks he will sidetrack great numbers of troops to reap the July grain harvest if he wants his soldiers to have enough to eat this autumn...
...fancy isms, the three parties in the Belgian Cabinet coalition - Catholic, Liberal, Socialist - agreed to offer no rival candidates. The stage was thus set for a fight between parliamentary government and Rexism, a fight in which Degrelle will get no support that the wily Premier can possibly sidetrack...
Died. General Karl Litzmann, 86, commander of the Imperial German Army which broke through the Russian Front in 1917, ardent Nazi; of old age; in New Globsow, Pomerania. Because the Reichstag is traditionally opened by its oldest member, Nazis elected Oldster Litzmann a deputy in 1932 to sidetrack Communist Clara Zetkin, then...
...Anna Sage, "The Woman in Ked, has denied she tipped off Federal agents. Faced with deportation to Rumania, she marched into a Chicago court, changed her story, insisted she betrayed Dillinger. In return, said Tipstress Sage Melvin Purvis, then chief Chicago investigator of the Department of Justic promised to sidetrack deportation proceedings against her. While Director J. Edgar Hoover of the Division of Invest gation denied any such deal, the Chicago judge granted a temporary writ to prevent her deportation...