Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally the police gave up in their attempt to pin anything on Harry Bridges. The ambulance arrived in about an hour and took the suffering woman to the hospital...
...Liveliest White House visitor of the week was 85-year-old Mrs. Anne Howell Kennedy Findlay. During the Civil War, on the street outside her house in Hagerstown, Md., Mrs. Findlay's mother found a young Union captain wounded in the throat, took him indoors to be cared for. Mrs. Findlay, then a girl of ten, was leaning over the officer's bed when he recovered consciousness. She helped nurse him back to health. The captain was the late Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. It was at the little girl's house that Poet Oliver Wendell...
...since he thought so little of General Franco and so much of the Red Government in Spain he was to receive an opportunity to meet his Red friends. The guards were to hurl him from the plane over Leftist Spam. At Munich, next stop, Putzy managed to slip away, took 17 hours to escape to the Swiss frontier. Shortly after he reached Zurich he was invited by the Government to return to Germany "because the whole affair was a practical joke...
Thus read placards posted in stations of the Toledo, Peoria & Western R. R. 50 years ago last week. Some 750 people from Peoria and nearby towns made reservations. A train dispatcher took along his bride. A superintendent of the T. P. & W. attached his private car, invited a party of friends. Sixteen coaches hauled by two locomotives were necessary to accommodate the crowd. Setting gaily forth, the train presently reached tiny Chatsworth. Ill., took on six more passengers, chugged out of the station at 11:35 p. m. Some two miles outside the town it approached a small wooden culvert...
...special board was created to administer it. Set up in 1869, Board of City Trusts went about its business so quietly most Philadelphians hardly knew it existed until rambunctious Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson, who likes to poke his nose into odd places, started talking about it when he took office early last year. By last week the affairs of the ancient & honorable board were making a resounding racket in Philadelphia's narrow streets and connected with the noise were two other ancient Philadelphia institutions-an equally old department store and a venerable firm of attorneys...