Word: sures
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Connally of Texas wisecracked: "We've just dry-cleaned Joe." == Call for this inquiry arose from stories written by top-flight Reporter Marquis Childs in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and by pretty Ruth Sheldon in the Saturday Evening Post. Mr. Guffey told the Senate he was "sure" Childs had "received other compensation for sending that story out than that which he receives from his regular employer," added that the same was "no doubt" true of Miss Sheldon. For these remarks Senator Guffey could not be sued, because of Congressional immunity for remarks on the floor. But seven...
...only would the four alleged puppet-killers in Tientsin be handed over, but also a fifth man, previously unmentioned. The British proudly stated that the fifth man had been surrendered only with the proviso that the British Consul General could occasionally go and look at him to make sure that he was not being tortured...
...Carow Roosevelt, 78, wife of the late President, with a party, in Oyster Bay, L. I.; Richard Whitney, 51, former president of the New York Stock Exchange, quietly, in Sing Sing; Hugh Samuel Johnson, 57, columnist and former NRA head, quietly, in Bethany Beach, Del. Said General Johnson: "I sure hate to reach this...
Last week Wartime field artillery Captain Witter announced his successor, selected by the board of governors and sure to be elected at the I.E.A. convention in Del Monte, Calif, this October. This time I.B.A. reached into the Middle West, chose another Wartime battery commander: tall, spectacled, 48-year-old Emmett Francis Connely, president of First of Michigan Corp. First Detroiter ever to head I.E.A., socialite "Spike" Connely is also anti-New Deal, believes in letting others shout their antagonism while he does the best he can in sad days for banking...
...village in the Bakony Forest, Hungary, a peasant named John Koevecs was found apparently lifeless. But his sons were leary of burying John Koevecs: twice before he had been thought dead, had revived indignantly at the funeral. They decided to wait three days to make sure. At the last minute John Koevecs again opened his eyes, sat up, stopped the show...