Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinemactors like Bing Crosby. Oliver Hardy and Guy Kibbee (TIME. July 19). Identified by his fingerprints, La Verne Moore was extradited and brought back to the Adirondack summer resort of Elizabethtown, N. Y. for trial. First stage in the case of People of New York v. La Verne Moore took place last week...
This consisted of a demand for a formal apology, suitable punishment of those responsible, and "an assurance by the Japanese authorities that necessary measures will be taken to prevent recurrence of events of such a character." The British took no special notice of the fact that it was His Majesty's Ambassador who had been shot in the liver; the note went so far as to say that his diplomatic status was "irrelevant." "The real crime" was that the car's occupants were "non-combatants." The British Foreign Office thus really sidestepped the implications of an attack...
...passive revolt to keep farm products from the market, dogged farmers in the southern agricultural areas shut themselves in their straw-thatched izby, refused to buy or sell, to work any land but their own. Last week, gaunt, rag-clad peasants, enraged at individuals who profited by delivering foodstuffs, took to barring the roads, overturning market trucks, destroying farm produce. Reports seeping through the iron press censorship told of sporadic clashes with police, with 56 casualties the result. Before long the strike took an anti-Semitic turn. Roving peasant bands attacked Jewish markets, set upon Jewish peddlers handling farm products...
...year's award of the Architectural League with his design for the $2,000,000 Scottish Rite Temple in Washington, a massive affair of marble and bronze. In the one architectural movement of his time that was distinctly American-skyscraper building- John Russell Pope took little interest. Neither was he affected by the style variously called Functionalism, Modernism. Internationalism, whose father was Frank Lloyd Wright, whose grandfather was Louis Sullivan. While that style was coming of age in the last decade, Architect Pope made Yale Neo-Gothic, Dartmouth Neo-Georgian, designed the grandiose mass of the Archives Building...
...Mobile, Salt Lake City and six other cities installed, then removed meters. Last week City Manager H. F. McElroy of Kansas City, Mo., which has 1,400 meters, snapped: "The meters solve none of the parking problems." In Alabama, where 500 meters were installed in Birmingham last September, motorists took the case to the Supreme Court, which outlawed meters as "an unauthorized exercise of the taxing power...