Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Gustav Bayer, 69, who with his daughter took morphine, turned on the gas and died in his home at Innsbruck...
...Anglo-American Press Association found it wise to get out of Vienna-or were bluntly ordered to leave. International News Service's Alfred Tyrnauer, an Austrian Jew, was arrested in the cable office while filing a story, his passport confiscated, his detention ordered; when the U. S. Legation took note, he was released for transfer to the Paris I. N. S. office. The New York Times's, bureau chief, G. E. R. Gedye, who had spent 13 years in Vienna, was ordered to leave the country in three days. His expulsion was countermanded but he would not stay...
...carrying him to Australia. Starting as a contractor's timekeeper, he entered the construction business in Washington, built upwards of 9,000 row houses, several hotels and apartment houses, was said to have been landlord to one in every ten Washingtonians. In 1930, when Hotel Management & Securities Corp. took over his apartments and hotels, he lost most of his fortune, estimated at $30,000,000 before Depression...
...Vienna last week, as Nazis took possession of the world's greatest establishment for medical teaching-the University of Vienna's medical school (300 professors & lecturers), the General Hospital (over 2,000 beds), the polyclinic and nine other hospitals-a dread epidemic struck down many a great physician. Reported as suicides were...
Because talk was blossoming in reform circles of need for a new legislative purge of Wall Street as a result of the Whitney scandal, Assistant Attorney General Ambrose V. McCall took occasion as Richard Whitney finished his guilty plea to declare: "On the contrary, the Whitney case is the result of regulation that is stopping a practice that was apparently widespread in pledging customers' securities...