Word: tented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Telephones rang in the sanatoria and hospitals of Tucson, Ariz, last week. St. Mary's Hospital was calling: "Have you an extra oxygen tent? We have a 12-year-old boy here who's failing. . . . Operation for mastoid.'' Not one extra tent was there in all the dozen institutions. Patten Levings, son of the city editor of the Los Angeles Evening Herald & Express, would have to die for lack of oxygen-rich...
...Bombay the Viceregal telegram was publicly called "insulting" by President Vallabhai Patel of the Gandhite Indian National Congress. Other Gandhites shouted: "This means war!" Squatting in his little tent pitched atop a Bombay tenement house, the Mahatma meditated half the night. Then loyal followers heard the scratch, scratch of his pen as he wrote to the Viceroy...
...arrest Mr. Gandhi in the dead of night and lodge him before dawn in Yerovda Jail near Poona, where the Mahatma had twice before been imprisoned (1926, 1930). At 3 a. m. Police Commissioner Wilson, Inspector Hirst and two strapping Indian policemen climbed the tenement stairs, approached the tent with-in which Mr. Gandhi was sleeping, bearing a warrant arresting the Mahatma "for good and sufficient reasons." Under a century-old ordinance enacted in the reign of King George IV. 50 years before Britain became an Empire, Prisoner Gandhi was to be lodged in jail for an indefinite term "during...
...were compelled to work up to 18 hr. per day, often without overtime pay; 4) wages ranged from 75? to $2 per day; 5) workers were forced to deal at company commissaries, pay exorbitant prices; 6 ) from each man's weekly wage $4.50 for food, $1 for tent rent, 50? for cook hire were arbitrarily deducted by the contractors...
...John, as the tent shows call him, first showed an interest in art about 30 years ago when he went to Europe to find new artists to draw circus posters. His interest is genuine; he picks out most of the purchases himself. Mr. John is still enough of a circus man to like his pictures big. He has the largest private collection of Rubens in the world. The pink stucco, palladian-arched John & Mable Ringling Museum contains about 20 galleries and features mountainous bronze reproductions of Michaelangelo's David and the Father Nile and Father Tiber from the Vatican...