Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should campaign like this in Puteaux or Clichy [suburban slums] I would not like to say what receptacles would be emptied on my head...
...York City had 195 cases of infantile paralysis July 25. By Aug. 4 there were more than 800 cases, mostly in Brooklyn. Anxious suburban parents, obliged to go to the city, avoided their children upon returning home until after they had changed clothes and gargled. Child campers in New England, New York State, New Jersey and Pennsylvania were forbidden visitors from the city. City health authorities opened stations to take blood from convalescents from the disease. Convalescent blood serum is a remedy if used early enough. Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "an aspirant for the presidency" in 1932, who was stricken...
...basis of its fundamental principles, it will not consider as legally obligatory on itself any fresh obligations which may be assumed toward France." Schmitz. Back from London came Brüning with nothing lost, little accomplished. Mindful of the Erzberger warning, he slipped off the train at a Berlin suburban station early in the morning, motored unobserved to President Hindenburg's palace on the Wilhelmstrasse. With him was a man who had been present at every conference in London, saying little, unnoticed by British reporters: white-haired, pleasant-faced Hermann Schmitz, Germany's emergency director of finance...
...hundreds of years all the bakers of Seville have come from the suburban village of Alcala de Guardaira. All last week the frightened bakers marched to work guarded by soldiers with fixed bayonets.* Hundreds of Syndicalists were arrested. Enough pistols and knives were found on them to fill six hampers in the police station. Two army trucks were filled with prisoners, sent off to exile in West Africa. Four men were killed in the Plaza Espana when a mob attempted to rescue the caravan of exiles...
...charges against Gangster Capone are the result of two years of patient enterprise on the part of 100 Federal investigators. Rarely could the sleuths find an authentic bank account for the racketeer. Many records under aliases in Cicero, Ill., his suburban suzerainty, had been destroyed. But the archives of the bank did reveal canceled checks made in payment to the Capone organization for liquor consignments. Queried about their checks, saloonkeepers blandly replied: "Chickens; we bought chickens to serve our customers." "One saloonkeeper," said Attorney Johnson, "had given checks for enough chicken to feed all Chicago...