Word: stood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...runs an old camp-meeting story. And so, last week, stood matters for 22,000 Home Relief clients in New York City. WPA used to make and distribute false teeth. It stopped when it could not find enough technicians on its rolls to keep pace with the demand. Last week, after many an indigent had waited toothless for two years, the problem was solved by the city's Department of Public Welfare contracting with nine dental laboratories to manufacture some 35,000 plates, following X-rays, extractions and impressions made by WPA dental clinics...
Last week, bluff, ruddy Leader Hines (having complained that New York City was no fair place to try a Tammany man) stood with eight co-defendants before the bar of Justice Ferdinand Pecora. Sturdy little Justice Pecora, who made his own mark investigating Wall Street for the Senate in 1933, had followed the Dewey proceedings with an expert eye. He bristled when defense attorneys thrust on his attention that Defendant Davis, who had agreed to turn State's evidence, had used the jail leaves (arranged by Mr. Dewey's office to permit him to see his doctor...
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...
...became a clerk in his father's bank at $67.50 a month. Thence he moved to the St. Louis firm of A. G. Edwards & Sons as a statistician, in 1931 was sent to Manhattan as its Exchange member. Immediately intrigued by the machinery of the Exchange, he often stood, mouth agape, watching speculation flow around him on the floor. Soon he was an expert at all phases of the market, could quote the capitalizations of 49 out of 50 firms chosen at random. In 1935 he became a governor, unobtrusively joined the Shields group...
...young Queen Victoria, having ruled England for a year, stood on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with a proclamation. "Because the slaves of Jamaica are impatient for freedom," she read in a thin young voice, "we proclaim them free; and 100 years from this day the plantations of Jamaica shall be divided into small pieces, and each descendant of these freedmen shall be given a small piece." The crowd cheered; the more enthusiastic abolitionists threw their hats...