Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coco last week, killed eight Sandinistas, captured six and a quantity of precious ammunition. Meanwhile a Col. Camilo Gonzalez, formerly of Nicaragua's National Guard, was landed last week at Manhattan's Ellis Island from the S. S. Santa Ana. A Costa Rican newshawk had somehow gotten and published a story that Gonzalez had bragged of killing Sandino on ''direct written orders from General Somoza...
Nazis busied themselves during the week at the expense of the Jews in the Bavarian town of Gunzenhausen. It began when storm troopers piled into a Jewish saloon to reprimand an "Aryan" at the bar. In the excitement a Jew spat on a storm trooper. He got away somehow, fled from house to house, finally hanged himself. Meanwhile the whole town had turned out for a finish fight. A little racial war rammed up and down the streets of Gunzenhausen for hours. Soon the jail was jammed with prisoners, all Jews, and the wounded of both sides crawled home...
When the Nazis pried the great Liberal Jewish family of Ullstein loose from its 56-year-old publishing house last November, the Vossichc Zeitung, the family's greatest newspaper, somehow managed to survive. Older by 173 years than the House of Ullstein which took it over in 1914, 229 years older than Nazidom, as dignified as the London or the New York Times but far more venerable, the Vossiche Zeitung was "Auntie Voss" to Berliners. It had reported the battles of Frederick the Great and Napoleon, the rise of Bismarck and the rise of Hitler. Toward Handsome Adolf...
Millions of radio listeners have long wished for some quick automatic way to convey their dislike of a program instantly to the broadcasting studio. Millions of other radio listeners have wished they could somehow signal applause. One evening last week in Manhattan a tall man with greying hair stepped up to a microphone, told his hearers they had not long to wait for their wish fulfillment. Dr. Nevil Monroe Hopkins' voice was tremulous with excitement. Seven years of work and thought had gone into his scheme for "Radiovotes" which he was now outlining in 15 minutes. As in elections...
...Reserve Corps, onetime copilot on United Air Lines, was working in a filling station when he was summoned for mail duty. Making a test flight in the type of observation plane that bore two Army pilots to death in flames near Cheyenne last fortnight (TIME, March 19), Lieut. Richardson somehow got his ship into a nosedive, crashed three miles from the Cheyenne airport, died in flames. Nevertheless, with the weather generally clear, mail flights were resumed on schedule and the first day passed without mishap. Meanwhile even with the Army grounded all week, the Administration's position...