Word: triede
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well aware that the damages asked by Apex would surely sink Branch No. 1 (whose income is $175,000 to $180,000 a year in dues from 15,000 members), Defense Attorney M. Herbert Syme tried hard to establish that the union's officers did not authorize or direct...
On trial in U. S. District Court in Danville, Ill. last week were Maude Ault, now a plump matron of 48, and 29-year-old Robert Eugene, who had himself renamed Alt, charged with mail fraud. Indicted with them was James Cleary, who had signed letters soliciting funds, promising repayment...
Meanwhile in Prague Germans began arrogant demonstrations. Storm Troopers in Henleinist uniforms posted themselves outside German schools. Squads of German students in jack boots and arm bands jostled their way through the bewildered crowds shouting "Heil Hitler! Sieg Heil!" When Czech policemen tried to shut up one obstreperous young Storm...
Year and a half ago, when the Cagoulard ("Hooded Men'') Fascist conspiracy was discovered, police searched Paris for arms deposits. At the home of Mme Baudoin they found a machine gun and other war like implements. She was tried and convicted for unlawful possession of arms.
The great Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) tried to measure the velocity of light by means of lantern signals between mountain tops. Naturally he failed. Light travels about 186,270 miles (more than seven times the circumference of Earth) in one second. In modern physics, light is regarded as the fastest...