Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elderly couple who gave their names as Mr. & Mrs. Will Hebner moved into a farmhouse about seven miles from the dusty little town of Pocahontas, Ark. Most conspicuous feature of the Hebner ménage was a large sign which said NO VISITORS WANTED. Pocahontas townsfolk took the hint until last winter, when both Hebners ceased to be seen and a flock of buzzards was observed wheeling over their establishment. Neighbors then found that the most conspicuous feature of the interior of the Hebner menage was a man's corpse lying in the storm cellar. The corpse-apparently several...
...late Huey Long took over Louisiana State University, started a $10,000,000 building program. Last month Louisiana's Governor Richard Leche invited Italian Ambassador Fulvio Suvich, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace and Managing Editor Walter Harrison of the wealthy Oklahoman & Times to help dedicate the college's $1,200,000 Agricultural Center Coliseum. Last week, these oddly assorted dignitaries succeeded in turning the ceremonies into an interesting verbal fracas...
...Negrin abruptly dropped out of his Cabinet the moderate Leftist who has been the key man of the regime, National Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto, the builder of the People's Army and, as such, comparable to Leon Trotsky, the exiled builder of the Red Army. Nominally the Premier took over the portfolio of Defense himself, but he gave overriding control of the People's Army to able Communist Jesus Hernandez, named him General War Commissar...
Eleven motorcars, flying official Government flags, tore out of the capital last week, took safely to France numerous Leftist personages, and Donna Luis Companys, wife of the President of Catalonia. On foot to France 6,000 persons fled from Leftist Spain. To 5,000 of these who had belonged to the Leftist militia the French Government refused admission. However, it was now the fast-growing Soviet Machine against the German-Italian Machine, and Spaniards found themselves facing the possibility of a civil war prolonged indefinitely-unless the swift, victorious Rightist offensive of recent weeks should quickly prove decisive...
...Laborite, who is a London-born Jew, took this as an anti-Semitic remark, hurled himself over to the Conservative side of the House and delivered the blow with his open hand, technically an "assault"-which is almost unprecedented in the Mother of Parliaments...