Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open and spread the gems over the ground. Startled shepherds clambered to the plane, found it a blazing wreck, with the 19 passengers and crew dead. They pocketed as many of the bright stones as they could and when the police arrived at the remote scene only $52,625 worth remained. The rest, they assumed, might have been destroyed in the fire...
...picking him as their party's nominee in the Gashouse district by majority of nearly 1,000 votes (out of 4,900 cast) over Allen Welsh Dulles, a young lawyer of considerable polish and attainments, but no political experience. Not for generations has this G.O.P. nomination been considered worth the red fire to illuminate its defeat, but with a Tammany Irishman carrying it, with perhaps 8,000 anti-Roosevelt Democrats swinging in behind the Republican voters, the Gashouse district may well retain its Representative with only a change in his party label...
...Czechoslovak Government to discharge from its army and police forces all persons of German race and to let political prisoners of this race out of its jails. Although many Czechoslovaks have counted on being able to dynamite their $250,000,000 fortifications in the Sudeten area and industrial plants worth much more before handing the area over to Germany under the Berchtesgaden Plan, the Godesberg Demands harshly required that evacuated territory be handed over in its present condition...
Hoarse-voiced King Zog of Albania five months ago requested a swank Paris jeweler to send him some $600,000 worth of precious gems on approval so he could select a few stones for his Queen-to-be, impoverished, half-American, 22-year-old Countess Geraldine Apponyi of Hungary. Albania's fierce, feuding tribesmen were not surprised. Wily Zog, a onetime clan chieftain of fine old farming ancestry, has always done his business on the approval basis. He shopped for a bride in the same way. At least one European lady of title, suitable and willing to become...
...weeks ago the police of Naples heard tales of magnificent jewels being offered for fantastically low prices. They investigated and last week swooped down and arrested two men. Before the policemen's popping eyes, the men uncovered a cache containing nearly $500,000 worth of jewels, which they admitted belonged to the lost collection. They had bought the lot from Mt. Altino's simple-minded shepherds...