Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City police have given a demonstration of strike work which might well be studied by Chicago. One day last week 2,000 strikers & sympathizers sat down on streetcar tracks outside a Brooklyn police station, refused to budge. As soon as one sit-downer was removed, another took his place. Women fought, scratched, screamed. Policemen finally sent the sit-downers scrambling. At week's end 20 C. I. O. unions pledged $100,000 war chest to carry on against the "miniature Tom Girdlers of the shipbuilding industry...
...what was called the first actual trial on charges of spreading disease germs in warfare, two Frenchmen. Jean Boujennec and Louis Chabrat, were arraigned last week before a Rightist court martial at Pamplona. The Court took note of their confession that they had been paid $3.750, inspected tubes found on them said to contain typhoid and sleeping-sickness germs and viruses. Although Death was the prompt sentence of the court martial. President Franco intervened, delayed the Frenchmen's execution "pending an international inquiry." With Spain's civil war in its 13th month, neither side had yet used poison...
...Xaylor. as his nurse-governess. She remained his governess until he was 15 and the Egyptian Parliament voted $80,000 to defray the expenses of himself and suite during the Crown Prince's first year of education in England. With Egyptian guards bristling all over the place, Farouk took up country residence at Kenry House, Kingston Hill, soon was greatly liked for his democratic ways by local English tradespeople who still speak of him as "Prince Freddy." Invariably Farouk's four "F" sisters dressed like demure English schoolgirls with pigtails down their backs. Queen Nazli excelled her brood...
...over!" Nonetheless it had provided the unique spectacle of a commander forced to bomb the daylights out of a city he was using at the same time as his base for an invasion. In the harbor meanwhile a perky little Japanese armored launch chuffed up to a Chinese warship, took it away from its Chinese bluejacket crew without a fight...
...week was a ten-day international aviation meet which offered a fine chance to the nations of Europe to show how they were getting along with human and mechanical preparations for the ''War in the Air." Military planes and pilots held the stage and Germany, at least, took full advantage of the occasion, competing in all events which she thought she could win, avoiding others. She won the meet hands down, taking first places in the speed, climbing & diving, and solo Alpine circuit races in the new Messerschmidt pursuit planes with which she has decided to replace...