Word: squated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doors of the baggage cars, long Army trucks backed up to the spur track to be loaded with the 400-troy-oz. bricks. As each truck was loaded it was convoyed by two of the Seventh Cavalry's combat cars on its brief trip to the squat depository building. Few days later the process was repeated as $120,000,000 was shipped from the U. S. Assay Office in Manhattan...
...second lead in a musical comedy, It's in the Air. She began to get starring roles in German pictures. Alternating them with stage work, she was a guest star in the Berliner Theatre when Josef von Sternberg saw her. After the show he went backstage-the squat, little man with a sharp face and Mephistophelean mustache. The strange career of Josef von Sternberg was just coming into its exotic bloom. Born Joe Stern in Vienna, Austria in 1894, he had risen from the cutting room, gambled his savings in a freelance silent picture, Salvation Hunters. Fame had come...
...Senator Byrnes, however, Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison was up against the hardest fight in his long Democratic career. On the ballot Senator Harrison's opponent is onetime (1932-36) Governor Martin Sennett ("Mike") Conner; on the stump his real adversary was his Senate colleague, squat, little Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo...
Inaugurated. Robert Sidney Maestri, 47, squat, swarthy New Orleans real estate tycoon, a political heir to the late Huey Long; as the city's first bachelor mayor; after certification by Louisiana's Governor Richard Webster Leche. Because no opponent appeared, no election was necessary...
Last week squat, roly-poly Tom Pendergast, Democratic Boss of Kansas City, was in Manhattan having his heart ailment treated by a specialist. Meanwhile he was, as usual, the prime issue when Missouri held its primaries. On an anti-Pendergast platform William Hirth, longtime head of the Missouri Farmers' Association, ran hard & fast after the Democratic nomination for Governor, but not hard & fast enough to prevent Boss Pendergast's man. Major Lloyd Crow Stark of Louisiana. Mo. from winning, 3-to-1. Even the fact that Major Stark, a famed nurseryman whose family originated "Stark's Delicious...