Word: whose
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find I am representative of the Wives and Families Association of those serving. In peacetimes (Oh long forgotten times!!) I have really nothing to do, but now!! It is a terrible legal job and I have to see landlords, to wage unequal battles on behalf of these poor women whose allowances do not admit of the high rents in force here...
Officials most badly wounded were General Shirakawa, who later died, Ambassador Shigemitsu who had to have his leg amputated in the succeeding weeks, the last time by the Emperor's personal surgeon sent from Tokyo, and Admiral Nomura, whose eye was peppered with steel splinters, later had to have it removed. Others on the platform came away with painful injuries and cuts, but none was permanently disabled...
Ships. Key Pittman's army is a motley one of Republican converts, Old Dealers, New Dealers. Some are stragglers by nature, others can easily be lured up inviting side alleys. In one of those side alleys stood an expert siren whose wiles have been 100% effective in U. S. history: the shipping lobby...
...each other as police spies, wreckers, Trotskyites, Lovestoneites, grafters, stool pigeons, for spreading stories about the central committee, for social fascism, for individualism, for anti-Party tendencies, for rotten liberalism, rotten intellectualism, conciliationism, for having personal relations with Trotskyites, for white chauvinism, for Zionism, irresponsible Bohemianism-for innumerable heresies whose very names sound weird in a democracy, but which operate to insure unquestioned obedience from members. These dread papers are pondered by Comrade Dirba in his office on the ninth floor of Party headquarters on 13th Street, Manhattan. His practice is generally to telephone the accused, usually around midnight...
Green-eyed, 31-year-old Mr. Sadler is an East Texan whose mother sold her chickens to give him a start when oil was discovered in the great East Texas field nine years ago. Hustling Jerry Sadler worked at odd jobs and high wages, saved his money and studied law. Last year, still a political unknown, he ran for a place on the important Texas Railroad Commission (which regulates Texas oil production). Weeks before Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel started to campaign with his Hillbilly Band, Jerry Sadler was touring Texas with the Sadler Stringsters...