Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Supported by a strong and united party, Democratic Nominee Cermak has a good chance of beating-Mayor Thompson. To his aid came Senator-elect James Hamilton Lewis whom Mayor Thompson last November helped to sweep Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick off her political feet...
...Viennese setting, two excellent sopranos, a well chosen male cast, and a waltz of Strauss-like sweep form the main attractions of this modern German film...
...environment did widen. First it was the State of Ohio when he went to the Legislature. Something had to be done about aviation, now a public matter. So David Ingalls took once more to the air. The State adopted his aviation code in one magnificent sweep. Next, it was the Nation, when, in the first fortnight of the Hoover Administration he was called to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air. More exactly, this new environment is the Nation's Navy, for David Ingalls does not scatter his attention. All the force of his irresistible enthusiasm is given...
...Unless we can have that,' I told His Majesty, 'no man can quell the movement of protest that will sweep Spain...
George Arliss and wife, en route to further cinemacting in Hollywood, were two of 300 tourists marooned in Wellton, Ariz, (no population, mostly Mormon), when bursting dikes let a giant wall of water sweep a 250-yard-wide path through the town. One woman was drowned, 4,000 ft. of Southern Pacific rail torn away...