Word: falcon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pointing a long finger, Senate President Robert C. Hendrickson shoved it directly under the falcon nose of Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague, charged that he alone was responsible for Jersey Central's bankruptcy. Reason: Boss Hague blocked the railroad tax compromise. Hague excuse: The bill was an attempted "tax steal." Roared he: "They are walking out with $35,000,000, and they are going to crucify Hague because he tells them they can't take that. . . . Mr. Railroads, just as long as the small taxpayers must submit, you'll submit. . . . Hague and Hagueism will haunt...
...would really like, I believe, to follow our lead-if we would assume the lead. The other night here in Bogotá we saw the newsreels of the Squalus rescue. The audience was simply overcome with admiration . . . and clapped and stamped as the survivors were helped aboard the Falcon. Finally the man in back of me, a Colombian, poked me violently in the back and said fiercely: "There, you ugly German [anybody with blond hair in Bogotá is a German], that's what we of the Americas...
...several mass meetings and the damaged and scarred city blossomed out in a new coating of war cartoons and slogans pasted on the walls of half-ruined buildings. That night Japanese bombers came over again in the moonlight, killed 50 persons in the city and damaged the British gunboat Falcon lying at anchor in the Yangtze. But the raid did not discourage Chinese leaders from broadcasting some high-hearted optimism...
...their way back from the South Pole in March 1912, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his party perished of starvation and cold. To his wife, Kathleen, Explorer Scott wrote: "I must write a little letter for the boy if time can be found, to be read when he grows up. The inherited vice from my side of the family is indolence-above all he must guard, and you must guard him, against that. I had to force myself into being strenuous...
...just 29 hours after the Squalus had made its dive, the seven men were helped aboard the Falcon. At four o'clock, nine more men reached safety. Three hours later a third group of nine came up. Before nine o'clock the last living men aboard the Squalus, including Lieut. Naquin, were taken into the bell. They had got out just in time. Water in the batteries had begun to generate chlorine...