Word: stench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of dull explosions and a dreadful stench drove 4,000 guests of the Centre Asturiano Regional Society dance out into the night. The smell was traced to the person of Bartolome Mas, 25, when a stink bomb exploded in his pocket...
...With the stench of the law suit getting stronger, with Medical Dean David Linn Edsall getting angrier, with President Lowell getting sadder-the Harvard Corporation, hoping to quash the suit, last week pinned up this notice in the Medical School and School of Public Health: "No member of either of these schools should take out for his own profit, or make any profit on, a patent upon any invention or discovery that affects the health of individuals or the public. That if, to protect the public against misuse of the invention or discovery, it is necessary to control...
...Santa Cruz province last week the sky darkened with the smoke of dozens of fires and the air was heavy with a dreadful stench. Down the dusty roads moved interminable flocks of sheep bleating mournfully, to converge in great corrals. In the corrals stood gauchos, their flapping diaper-like chiripa about their legs, swinging pole axes. Each time a sheep fell other gauchos were ready to pile the carcasses on the crackling, reeking bonfires. Thus Santa Cruz sheep ranchers wilfully destroyed 60,000 fine sheep for which they could find no markets...
...Fiorello La Guardia. the Republican nominee, charged wholesale Tammany graft and corruption, named one Magistrate Albert Vitale as the borrower of $20,000 from Arnold Rothstein, murdered gambler. The Republican Legislature ordered an investigation. Governor Roosevelt vetoed the measure. Vitale was removed from office by a higher court. The stench of scandal continued. A U. S. District Attorney in Manhattan, preparing to run as a Republican against Governor Roosevelt, disclosed all manner of jobbery among Tammany judges. Again the Legislature wanted to probe but Governor Roosevelt ordered the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court to undertake the investigation, picked...
Promptly Laborite Premier Scullin made Tasmania's Lyons Postmaster General and Minister of Public Works & Railways in the Dominion Cabinet. His big chance came almost immediately when a stench of scandal arose around the Dominion Treasurer, "Big Boss" Edward Granville Theodore. As a disinfectant "The Honest Man from Tasmania" was appointed Acting Treasurer. It is no secret that during Mr. Scullin's enforced absence of four months to attend the Imperial Conference at London in 1930, the real Premier of Australia was Mr. Lyons. Together he and the nominal Acting Premier, James Edward Fenton, did what they could...