Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Regardless of what crippled the ill-fated Squalus and sent it to the bottom, one thing is evident-its designers are at least 27 years behind the times...
...marines appeared, started to march away strikers and strikebreakers together. Employe Tinkler protested, but Japanese marines batted him over the skull with a gun-butt. What happened next is not clear. Japanese claimed Tinkler threatened them with a revolver, observed that "he came into contact with Japanese bayonets." One thing was clear, however: Tinkler slowly bled from internal hemorrhage during the 20 hours the Japanese kept him incommunicado. That night he was taken, not to the International Settlement, but to a hospital in Japanese-controlled Hongkew where two Japanese & two German surgeons performed an emergency operation while Japanese sentries stood...
...anti-Catholic, the League also denies that it will make use of boycotts. Said Deputy City Treasurer John Park Lee, chief layman in the League: "Because of Catholic pressure. Americans got only a one-sided report of the Spanish conflict. . . . We must never be guilty of the same thing...
...Hollywood's Clover Club one night last week cafe society saw the nearest thing yet to a man biting a dog. Pretender Extraordinary Mike Romanoff, of Vilna, Russia, and/or Hillsboro, Ill., after some 20 years on cafe society's cuff, threw a party. The formal invitation, engraved with a big Imperial R, read: "To discharge his social obligations past and future, we have received commands from his Imperial Highness, Prince Michael Romanoff, to invite ( ) to a buffet supper on Saturday evening, June the tenth, at the Clover Club."; and continuing: "Guests will please bring their own liquor...
...years one unhandy thing about this Caesarean seemed to be the place where it occurred. Far more conveniently situated to serve mid-continent railroad customers are the inland industrial centres which sprang up in the following decades. But last week, Baldwin's 11,000 stockholders had reason to feel lucky that Matthias Baldwin set up shop on tidewater hard-by naval shipyards. They were shown their luck when Baldwin reported its unfilled orders...