Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week the Caraway home, a Colonial building valued at $40.000. in the Washington suburb of Riverdale. Md., was placed on auction to satisfy a $22,500 mortgage...
...Love Rankin, a U. S. woman doctor attached to the Chinese Red Cross, one day last week tried to visit her husband who teaches school in a Shanghai suburb. Japanese bombers roared overhead. Frightened, she ran, thought of hiding behind an automobile, changed her mind, jumped behind a tree. The automobile was blown to bits. Bombs burst all around her, buried her in debris. Two coats and a sweater protected her from serious injury...
...without significance that two-minded Playwright Barry, when in the U. S., lives in smart Mt. Kisco, a Manhattan suburb alive with stockbrokers. One of his closest cronies is his classmate Robert A. Lovett of Brown Bros. Harriman & Co , banking house. And although no one loves the free life more than Playwright Barry, paradoxically he drives as shrewd a bargain for his work as Edgar Wallace...
Aubervilliers was the irresolute young statesman's salvation. He was and he remains today Mayor of Aubervilliers. Unshakeably rooted in this Paris suburb he cultivated the friends he had made as a Deputy, notably that bald, enigmatic millionaire Joseph Caillaux, onetime Premier. In 1924 Mayor Laval again sought and won election as a Deputy, not as a Socialist this time but as a moderate Republican...
...Federal Congress for a fortnight past has been painful to Christian ears. Repeatedly the Savior's Holy Mother was termed by Senators and Representatives "the so-called Virgin Mary." Last week the Congress added insult to injury by voting unanimously to change the names of two Mexico City suburbs. San Angel became Obregon, Congress substituting for the "Holy Angel" one-armed General Alvaro Obregon, famed champion of the Revolution and one of the most popular presidents Mexico has ever had, who was assassinated in San Angel by a religious fanatic in 1928. The suburb Guadalupe-Hidalgo (a double-barreled...