Word: streets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Foreign Office categorically denied all talk of "peace" negotiations, there was still enough appeasement smoke around to make British non-appeasers increasingly suspicious that there was a fire somewhere. Early this week the "fire" was located, and it was found to be so near No. 10 Downing Street that its discovery was a Parliamentary sensation...
Roomers in the tenement at No. 328 Henry Street, on Manhattan's lower East Side, were bothered a lot by Walter Ferguson, 45, an unemployed handy man who lived on the third floor. He had religious fits. He shouted a lot, preached the doctrines of Father Coughlin. The only person who could quiet him was Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Schneider, 55, a midget who lived on the fourth floor...
Famed throughout Texas grew Pitchfork Smith's thunderous writings, his private battles, his oratorical eloquence. Old timers still quote from his street-corner oration on the death of John Barleycorn, the night before Prohibition took effect. One of his speeches ("When You Die, Will You Live Again?") was so highly esteemed by one P. S. Harris, president of Lucky Tiger Remedy Co., that Mr. Harris gave The Pitchfork a lifetime advertising contract, reprinted the speech and sent copies to every barbershop...
Last week, Wall Street noted that power production for the week ending July 1 was 14% ahead of last year and slightly ahead of 1937, added this to Bond & Share-New Deal good-will and the chances of more SEC-holding company deals. Result: the Dow-Jones average of 15 utility stocks rose for eleven consecutive days, making the second quarter of 1939 look like a straight line advance for at least this group...
...went to Germany to find out what had happened to Frau Rosenheim. Instead, he found himself held on a trumped-up charge of political murder, escaped the headsman's block only through the intervention of a Nazi higher-up's mistress, the daughter of his old Magnolia Street friend Sam Silver...