Word: victims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...victim of "baseball," said President Walter O. Briggs (automobile bodies) who became sole owner of the club three years ago, spent $1,000,000 to enlarge the ball park, changed its name from Navin Field to Briggs Stadium. When the Tigers, who had finished second in 1936 and 1937, were still in fifth place last week, it was too much for Owner Briggs...
...Latest victim: Leonard T. Grant, onetime (1929) New York University football captain, killed last week while walking, club in hand, down the fairway of a Dedham (Mass.) golf course...
...stables. Inside, two troopers raped her while others held her. Arrested and brought to trial month ago, two troopers were given sentences of four years each, a third sentenced to 22 months in prison. Learning that the girl was with child, Dr. Bourne decided that the age of the victim, whose name by agreement was left undisclosed last week, and the nature of the attack offered better than ordinary grounds for exhibiting the limitations of the law. Accordingly, with the consent of the girl's parents, he performed the operation seven weeks ago, then asked Scotland Yard to arrest...
After Senator Van Nuys opposed President Roosevelt's Supreme Court plan last year, he was singled out as Victim No. 1 for the great purge of the Democratic Party. Franklin Roosevelt said nothing publicly, but Mr. McNutt's obedient satellite, Governor Maurice Clifford Townsend of Indiana, announced it last July from the White House steps (TIME, July 26), repeated it last August at a powwow of Democratic editors in Indianapolis: "The people of our State will not tolerate . . . any one in public office who will not put his shoulder to the wheel and give his earnest support...
...cancer of the thyroid. Nobody knows the specific cause of any of them. Pathologists know that it has something to do with lack of iodine, hormone imbalance or germs. The difficulty is especially perplexing in the case of exophthalmic goitre. This is the most dramatic type, giving the victim's features an expression of terror, his heart palpitations, and his disposition the fidgets...