Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week they returned to Judge Igoe's court. The foreman polled them perfunctorily. Up piped Mrs. Merrifield in a suddenly hushed courtroom: "That was not and is not my verdict. . . . I signed through cowardice. I submitted to the will of the majority...
...Last week, modest, 65-year-old Mrs. Ashurst had a few paragraphs to herself in the newspapers which had devoted columns to her famed husband. At her home in Washington, after long illness, Mrs. Ashurst died. The Senator, for this occasion, found no words adequate...
...Last week U. S. District Attorney William J. Campbell in Chicago "respectfully requested" Western Union, A. T. & T. and the telephone company's Illinois subsidiary to disconnect Nationwide's number. Unless they obeyed, they might be indicted as accessories in an illegal enterprise. Although Mr. Campbell has yet to convict indicted Publisher Annenberg of evading income taxes, illegal trafficking with gamblers, etc., the wire companies agreed to hang up on Annenberg services throughout the U. S. At that point a Federal judge persuaded Attorney Campbell to let the network stay in operation three more days while he heard...
...Admiral Yarnell last week Acting Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison said, "You were awarded the Distinguished Service Medal [Aug. 28, 1939] for exceptional ability, courage, tact. . . in . . . handling with the greatest skill . . . the many delicate situations that arose during the continued emergency in China. . . . The Secretary of the Navy regrets...
...comes to all Navy men at 64, often as cruelly and as indiscriminately as Death, retirement last week beached the old Admiral. Hobbyless, Harry Yarnell settled down to read books on the Orient, twiddle his brown thumbs, watch the sailboats off Newport...