Word: tion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...income tax charges. But he had since retired to private practice; the Governor doubted whether his name was big enough to head the investigation. Finally, however, the Governor was convinced, and athletic, 33-year-old Lawyer Dewey, whose favorite indoor sport is squash racquets, found himself in a posi-tion to become the biggest racket-squasher in the U. S. Thomas Dewey's handsome, foxy face has grown familiar to New Yorkers, but when it appeared in the newspapers in June 1935 few would have recognized it without a caption. An Owosso, Mich, boy whose grandfather was second cousin...
...partners. Last week, well aware of the significance of his mission, Dewey Assistant Herlands set out to give the nation its first complete courtroom exposition of the way such a racketeering outfit works. Restaurants, On trial before Justice McCook were three officials of the "Metropolitan Restaurant & Cafeteria Associa- tion," three of a local of A. F. of L.'s Hotel & Restaurant Employes International Alliance ("waiters' union"); two of a local of A. F. of L.'s Delicatessen & Restaurant Countermen & Employes ("cafeteria workers") Union. Nine others had been named in the indictment. Three of them were fugitives. Four...
...aforementioned performers could carry a Grade B musical show by themselves. What puts The Show Is On definitely in the Grade A class is the addi tion of another pair of entertainers, Reginald Gardiner and Beatrice Lillie...
...University of California. After the War he went to Yale's Graduate School, has been a mem ber of Yale's English Department since 1920. When he goes to his new post in September 1937, after President Woolley officiates at next year's centenary celebra tion, Mount Holyoke girls can expect a change in presidential speaking fare. President-elect Ham's specialty is not Peace but the poetry of John Dryden, on which he is a top-ranking authority...
...view of the decision of the Italian Government to annex the whole of Ethiopia and the consequent menace to our posi-tion in Africa and the Near East, His Majesty's Government have made it clear in unmistakable terms that under no circumstances will interference by Italy with the existing regimes in Egypt and Palestine be permitted, and any attempt to do so will be considered as an unfriendly act ... to be repelled by all the means at their command...