Word: stakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vast surprise of a Manhattan police court last week, a mussy little prisoner informed the judge that the issue at stake in his case was not whether he had been caught peddling in Times Square without a license, but whether or not the U. S. people were to enjoy the rights and privileges of a free press...
...months of Spain's civil war has there been anything on either side to match the complete rout of the Italian divisions at Brihuega, and Rightist General Franco and his German and Italian backers were bound to make that defeat good last week. More than prestige was at stake in the attack on Bilbao. Bilbao captured should give the Rightists control of the Biscay coast, remove serious military pressure on their rear, allow thousands of men to be transferred to the siege of Madrid. Most important of all it would bring Franco and his Nazi and Fascist backers...
...hobo isn't a stemmer; he begs only when he has to. He don't hit the smoke like floaters do, and when he drinks he drinks good liquor. Columbus was a water hobo. He said to Isabella: 'Queeny, old gal, you'll have to stake me with a handout. . . .' " Picked as convention city for 1938: Altoona...
...Butch" Burns, of Richmond Hills, L. L. who is one of the strong men of the School of Design and Landscape Architecture and knows it, yesterday decided he could race against a relay team of four friends for two miles and beat them. A keg of beer was the stake...
...Templeton of the Chicago Board of Trade. The party afforded a public opportunity for hosts & guests to brush up on such goodwill items as that the U. S. is Canada's best customer, that, next to Britain, Canada is the best U. S. customer, that the U. S. stake in Canada amounts to some $4,500,000,000 (far larger than the Mother Country's) and that Canadians own more than $1,000,000,000 worth of U. S. securities. And after the well-wishing, Broker Housser proceeded to show his potent visitors a few new tricks...