Word: y
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there, and "Goober" is none too concerned with House(office)keeping. But let no one, because of these oddities in Congressman Cox's make up, presume that he is not abreast of the times and that he is not an able legislator. WILLIAM E. GROSE Jackson Heights, N. Y...
...summer White House staff. And in a call at the Hudson River State Hospital for the insane, the President proved himself a less gloomy visitor than his own guests. He told a class of graduating nurses what had happened when he visited a similar institution at Ogdensburg, N. Y. An old man mowing the lawn, said the President, "took off his hat very politely. After I had passed, I heard the family, who were looking back, roar with laughter. I turned and there was the old gent thumbing his nose at me." While the nurses chuckled, the President gave...
...Davies Co., Ltd. which then specialized in acquiring Government revenue tax stamps, putting them on cut whiskey. Aware in April 1936 that the Government was investigating his affairs, Johnny Torrio blandly decided on another trip to Italy, applied for a passport. When he went to the White Plains, N. Y. post office to get the decoy registered letter which the Government mailed to him, he was popped into jail. When bail was set at $100,000, his wife produced it in cash from her handbag...
There was, however, a "provisional, semiofficial" Vatican representative in Salamanca-Isidoro Cardinal Goma y Tomas. Last week he ordered circulated to every Catholic bishop in the world an extensive letter, 10,000 words long, signed by himself, one other cardinal, six archbishops, 35 bishops, and five vicars capitular which did more than any ambassadorial recognition to show how far down the line the Vatican is willing to go with Franco's cause...
...Leftists, declared the prelates, showed little consideration for the Church: "Tombs and churchyards have been profaned. . . . The people have played football with the skull of the great Bishop Torras y Bages. . . . We calculate that about 20,000 churches and chapels have been destroyed or totally plundered. . . . [Priests] were hunted with dogs; were pursued across the mountains. . . . They were killed without trial most times. . . . The honor of women has not been respected, not even of those consecrated...