Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most marchers frankly admitted that on their way to London, local charity folk gave them more to eat than they have had in many months at home. Among the suburbs of the capital, schoolhouses, suburban railway stations and district lodging houses offered shelter for the night, but London itself was different. In London the hunger horde came up against that frigid Old Etonian, one-armed Sir Edward Hilton Young, His Majesty's Minister of Health, who was wounded at Zeebrugge Mole in 1918?a fact of which he is so proud that like Admiral Nelson he pins his empty right...
...Crown Prince Mihai's eleventh birthday approached last week, his mother Princess Helen (who is estranged from King Carol and lives in London) traveled to Rumania. At the frontier she was met by the Rumanian Train and brought secretly to a suburban royal villa without entering Bucharest. Possibly Dr. Maniu, always a stanch champion of Princess Helen, will manage to patch things up. When he broke with the King two years ago Citizen Maniu reputedly said: "Sire, you can never be crowned unless the mother of Prince Mihai is crowned as Queen by your side...
Through a chill twilight President Hoover was driven from a suburban station into the heart of town. Large crowds, respectful but not enthusiastic, lined the pavements. They clapped some, cheered a little...
...night of last April's primary in Illinois, James Simpson Jr.. 27, towheaded, horse-fancying son of the then chairman of Marshall Field & Co.. thought he had won the Republican nomination for Congress in the Suburban loth ("North Shore") district. In May the official count gave the nomination to State Representative Ralph Church by 73 votes. A recount failed to change the outcome. Mr. Simpson took his case to court, was last week declared winner by 45 votes. Candidate Church announced he would run independently in November on the issue of whether Nominee Simpson should "be sent...
...Dallas many apartment dwellers have moved into the homes of friends and relatives. Vacancies in expensive apartments ($90 to $125) run as high as 40% despite rent reductions equally as big. Work continues on the city's big suburban development. Highland Park West, despite the fact that its backer, Hugh Prather, sold his $125,000 home and moved in with his partner & brother, Phil Prather...