Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government workmen were sent to the former Imperial villa at Hetzendorf, a Vienna suburb, to put the place in order. Other much needed repairs were commenced on the rambling palace in Vienna, parts of which are now a museum and rented apartments...
...Child Labor was added to the list. To Mrs. Roosevelt in the White House came her bevy of female newshawks one morning, demanding to know whether she was aware that her eldest son, James, had publicly said before a Sunday night meeting of young church people in a Boston suburb: "I am opposed to the Child Labor Amendment...
...after his sentencing, bandaged Munischreiter, still protesting that he had never fired his rifle, met Herr Lang and his noose in the Vienna prison courtyard. He was cut down seven hours later at midnight, and replaced by Dr. George Weissl, heroic commandant of the Socialist fight in the Floridsdorf suburb. Said he: "I die with no regrets. I am a worker and I have fought to save my home...
...Cambridge more attractive President Conant last week called attention to the problem of faculty housing. He would make masters as comfortable as their luxuriously-housed pupils. Said he: "It is no longer as pleasant or easy to live in Cambridge as in many other university communities." A placid suburb 25 years ago, Cambridge is now a bustling city of 125,000, circling the university in a tight-clenched grip. Pleasant residences have steadily grown scarcer, more expensive...
...scientific study but differences between ordinary brothers are so common that even the public ignores them. Yet last week Detroiters found much interest in comparing two brothers, one Henry, aged 70, the other William, aged 62. Both raised on a Michigan farm, both now residents of Detroit's suburb Dearborn, both surnamed Ford. The data...