Word: courting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...said that the Committee had evidence to convict the League in court for failure to register as an agent of a foreign government. Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party, admitted that the League was a Communist front organization, Dies said...
...deputy sheriffs routed 200 fashionable guests who were allegedly playing bingo and tango games, seized paraphernalia as evidence, let a pretty brunette go, arrested four men. A florid man named John F. Garrison identified himself as Chancellor of the Consulate, promised to appear in the Culver City justice court at week...
Birthdays. King Carol of Rumania, his 46th; Aimee Semple McPherson, her 49th; Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, her 55th (see p. 19); William Richard Morris, Lord Nuffield, Britain's No. 1 automogul ("The Morris Car is a Ford with an Oxford Education"), his 62nd, Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, his 67th...
...Bernstein who knew her onions, having plowed through difficult statistical jobs with NRA, WPA, U. S. Department of Labor, etc. These two, with three assistants, were set up in N.B.E.R.'s financial research workshop-an estate (next door to Arturo Toscanini), in swank Riverdale, N. Y., with tennis court, swimming pool, view of the Hudson. Handed to them was a stack of raw material: statistics on the purchases of 60,000 U. S. families, collected by white-collar WPAsters...
...Bronx, Supreme Court Justice John E. McGeehan warned a jury panel that $500 worth of property had been stolen from his chambers in a few weeks' time, explained: "Nothing is safe around here unless it is nailed down. [Someone] even made away with my towels and soap...