Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Later in the week three students met in a house at Marianao, Havana suburb where Oriental Park racetrack is located. A raid by secret police resulted in their deaths. The youths sold their lives dearly, killing three policemen...
...ardent amateur ornithologist, Stevens sat in the library of his Highland Park (Chicago suburb) home, within reach a volume of an encyclopedia open to an article on birds. Taking a revolver in hand he fired a trial shot into the fireplace, then put a bullet through his head. Insurance to be paid on his life was estimated at $300,000. His brother and his father, 79, were to go on trial with him, but the father last week lay ill unto death with apoplexy and his life insurance of $72,000 was in danger of lapsing unless premiums were paid...
Evanston, Ill., famed for Charles Gales Dawes and Northwestern University, last week got into the nation's news as the battleground of an organization called the Paul Reveres. Founded four months ago in Glencoe, Ill., a smaller Chicago suburb seven miles north of Evanston, the Paul Reveres tub-thump against Communism and "subversive activities." Planning a nation-wide organization, they made a Colonel E. M. Hadley their president. In January, Evanston got its chapter, headed by one John A. Kappelman, insurance broker. Far from unusual in thesis or technique, the Evanston Reveres made news by choosing for their target...
Lawson Robertson, track coach of the University of Pennsylvania and 1932 U. S. Olympic teams, stopped his car in a Philadelphia suburb to help a little man who lay groaning in the road where he had been thrown from the running board of a car hit by another. Bending over, Robertson saw that the man was William Arthur Carr, the greatest trackman Robertson had ever trained, who last year broke the world's record for the 400-meter run in the Olympics when he ran Benjamin Bangs Eastman into the ground (TIME, Aug. 15). Coach Robertson lifted Carr...
Married. Thomas James Walsh, 73, Montana's senior U. S. Senator, Attorney General in the Roosevelt Cabinet; and Mina Perez Chaumont Truffin, wealthy relict of a Havana sugar broker; in Marianao, suburb of Havana, Cuba...