Word: township
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Denston's 82-year-old husband, a rickety old man with wens on his face, remarked: "She's all right now, I guess. . . . I guess they did a pretty good job." Near Philadelphia their son, William Denston, a motorcycle policeman of Lower Merion Township, showed reporters a piece of rope. "Yes," he said, "I was there. I'm satisfied." Said the sheriff of Somerset County: "Investigation? Oh, yes. Well, boys, I was right in the thick of that affair. . I looked right in the faces of some of that mob and I didn't recognize...
...case of Charles Berton interested township police. An investigation began. Meanwhile County Physician Charles H. Mitchell grew angry indeed. Said...
McMahan, the holder of the first Shaw Fellowship, is first marshal of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, and received his degree this morning summa cum laude in Philosophy. He prepared at Harter-Stanford Township High School. Levin, a graduate of West High School, is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa and received his degree summa cum laude in English. As a Sophomore, Levin was the winner of the first Bowdoin prize, and this year of the George B. Sohier Prize for the best honors thesis in English...
...control over the young, the decline of church congregations, the quick get-away for criminals,--all this shows enormous changes that have been effected in less than twenty-five years; but when we look for consistent alterations in our government machine, they are not there. The automobile has made township and county units obsolete, they are an unnecessary expense, quite indefensible but equally impossible to abolish...
...Amherst township near Buffalo, Police Chief Evans saw William J. Klute, whom he had long wanted on charges of robbery, in a newsreel tuning up one of the late William Wrigley's motorboats. He wired Manhattan police to arrest Tuner Klute, went...