Word: connections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official communique on the results of the royal visit was issued which carefully avoided any mention of anything beyond purely local issues. Customs guards will hereafter be much politer. Three new passes will be opened through the mountains. And engineers may soon bid for two new railroads, one to connect Sofia with the ports of Southern Jugoslavia...
...Letters," was imprisoned in Connecticut for six weeks in 1775. Chosen bishop by ten Connecticut churchmen, he was consecrated in 1784 in Aberdeen, Scotland because he could not properly take the British oath of allegiance. An able organizer and a strict churchman, he signed himself "Samuel Bp. Connect...
...April 2, 1932 by John F. ("Jafsie") Condon as ransom for Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. More than $5,000 of the ransom money had turned up in 716 transactions during the past two years. But no one who had received any of it had ever been alert enough to connect it with the case. License number 4U-13-41, penciled on the bill, was the one hard factual link for which the police of New York and New Jersey and the Department of Justice had been tirelessly searching for 29 months...
...week ended, all the police had as evidence were the pushcart, some fingerprints on the abandoned car and a scuttled lobster boat which they were trying to connect with the case. In tracing the escape boats they were embar- rassed to find no less than 22 innocent Popeyes...
...bright and shiny affair, all a glitter with highly-polished brass and chromium plate, the new switch-board sports a chic little dial, supposedly a much needed labor-saving device, which, the telephone company claims, will eliminate the pseudo laborious task of pushing the signal lever to connect with the outside trunk line, while at the same time, it is also asserted, it will speed up the service greatly, but this only after the operator has "finally got the hang...