Word: town
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...urge that you keep your eye on Vandenberg. Back here in his home town, we count him a "comer...
...King's Lyme, commemorating Peter Baudrat's gift of lands in Lyme Borough to King Edward II in the 14th century. Last week Bognor, seaside town in Sussex, where King George V was recently a convalescent, became with George V's permission, Bognor Regis...
...Rumania, in the Transylvanian Alps, peasants stood in idle groups last week and talked in proverbs of the devil and money. Had they not just seen what the money devil could do to a strong man? Ion Gerghuta, their neighbor and a thrifty farmer, had come back from the town of Kronstadt with his crop money?...
...Virkula car. His defense: the machine did not stop when Patrolman Emil Servine held up the stop sign. White was lodged in the International Falls jail, charged first with manslaughter, then with murder. Safe there, he made no great effort to raise his $5,000 bail. The little town's citizenry seethed with indignation against White and "the system" he represented. Banding together they wrote a public protest to President Hoover which concluded: "In our utter helplessness, terror and distraction, we are at last resorting to you. . . . For God's sake, help...
...late John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates, famed Manhattan and Chicago financier, was a fantastic gambler.? But unlike most of his sort he left a large fortune. Last week the Gates fortune was making a hurly-burly in the Gatesian town of St. Charles, Ill. There a new post-office is to be built. Mrs. Delora Angell Norris, niece of the late Mr. Gates, who received most of the Gates estate and controls some $80,000,000 (Texas Oil Co.) wants it built on the East bank of the Fox River, where she owns a community house, a cinema...