Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diplomat) they came perilously close to being a deliberate insult. And there was even a suspicion that they might have been inspired by the White House. In effect, Mr. Ickes having boxed Adolf Hitler's ear, and Mr. Welles having slapped his nose, Mr. Pittman took a roundhouse swing...
...first U. S. Gould was Nathan Gold of England. A later Gould was Colonel Abraham, killed in a battle during the Revolution at Ridgefield, Conn. Jay Gould built a railroad empire and fought his battles in Wall Street. In many ways Helen took after her father. He left her $10,000,000 and made her (with three of his sons) a trustee of his $84,000,000 estate. She ran up her $10,000,000 to an estimated $30,000,000. She invested in traction properties and made an annual tour of 7,000 miles to inspect them. A strange...
...Rebel Pancho Villa. He had long since retired with a comfortable fortune and stomach ulcers when, in 1937, his young son David and his young nephew Jimmy Benét (son of Poet William Rose Benét) went to fight in Spain. Word that David had been wounded took Frederick Thompson posthaste to Madrid, where he found David recovering and insistent upon more fighting. Father Frederick wanted to fight, too, but his age (55) and his ulcers made it impracticable. So he retired to Paris, where he did his fighting with more conservative U. S. expatriates in order...
Greatest single news event of 1938 took place on September 29, when four statesmen met at the Führerhaus, in Munich, to redraw the map of Europe. The three visiting statesmen at that historic conference were Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain, Premier Edouard Daladier of France, and Dictator Benito Mussolini of Italy. But by all odds the dominating figure at Munich was the German host, Adolf Hitler...
Extradited to New York, Philip Musica took the whole blame, pleaded guilty to grand larceny. The rest of the Musicas dropped out of circulation. Philip stayed in the Tombs, helping the District Attorney's office with the case. "The Human Hair Mystery" got a big play in the papers of 1913, when (according to Who's Who) Frank Donald Coster was a practicing physician in New York...