Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...illustration" only in discussing Wages & Hours. South Carolina's best newspapers all believed him, quoted the speech to help him prove Candidate Johnston a misinformer, and the 50? issue became a boomerang to improve, instead of diminish, "Cotton Ed's" chance of a sixth consecutive term...
...underdog, Champion Ambers in the early rounds did nothing to raise his reputation. Under a tattoo of blinding punches he crumpled to the canvas at the end of the fifth round. Saved by the bell, he came out for the sixth only to be knocked down again. But at the count of 8, just as the Garden spectators and millions of radio listeners were mentally collecting their bets, Underdog Ambers clambered to his feet...
...Swarthmore fraternity-mate, Thomas Bayard McCabe, who went to work for Scott in 1915 at $10 a week, became its star salesman. Son of a Delaware banker, President McCabe joined with First Vice President Edward S. Wagner in buying out the Scott interest. They now hold about one-sixth of the stock. President McCabe handles sales; Vice President Wagner, operations and finance. They limit themselves to salaries...
...State's star witness against Defendant Carroll was Convict Dwyer, now 19, more pasty-faced than ever after eight months in a cell. On the basis of his sixth confession, a 17-page horror story told with flashes of incongruous drugstore wit, Special Assistant Attorney General Ralph M. Ingalls had reopened a closed case. The story: Barbara had told Dwyer of relations with her father to stop him from reproaching himself about her lost virginity; Dwyer taxed Carroll with it and the father threatened, bullied, finally accused him of making Barbara pregnant; when Dr. Littlefield, called in to examine...
State should be administered by the British under a revised mandate." Meanwhile, zealous Jews and Arabs continued for the sixth successive week their murder-bent activities. In cities, although British troops stood guard at virtually every street corner, bombs were hurled and snipers picked off their victims in broad daylight. The total toll of the terrorism during previous weeks: Arabs, 155 killed, 278 injured; Jews, 72 killed, 217 injured...