Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...fancy names all gone, Son No. 5 was named merely Roy. He had all his father's bad temper, and more. A stable-hand saved Billy from his son's wrath one day after a fight; Roy went off, joined the Army, died in a fall downstairs in a Chattanooga hotel...
Lawyer, Legislator. In little Celina, Cordell Hull began practice in 1891. In the fall of 1892 he was elected to serve in the Legislature in Nashville, before he was old enough to vote. In his first term he performed yeoman party service: Acting as lawyer for an elections committee, he helped throw out 20,000 ballots as fraudulent, thereby replaced an apparently elected Republican Governor with an apparently defeated Democrat...
...letter to an unmarried expectant mother whose fiancé was killed in Poland, Deputy Führer Hess declared: "During war especially, which so often means death for the best men, every new life is of extraordinary importance. Hence, if young soldiers fall on behalf of the Fatherland who, for some reason or other, could not marry and who leave children behind, the State will take care of this national treasure...
...into renewing her trade treaty with Japan. The present agreement, the Treaty of 1911, was denounced on July 26, and lapses on Jan. 26. By last week nothing had been done about renewal, and Japan was beginning to get panicky about the threat of embargo. The Cabinet might fall unless the U. S. reacted favorably to the Yangtze promise. "We anticipate American action," said Spokesman Yakichiro Suma, "with absorbing interest"-and before Christmas, he added...
Fluttery Hilda Davis (wife of Dance-Band Leader Meyer Davis), who owns a lock of Lord Byron's hair, a page from the Gutenberg Bible, a promissory note for $100,000 made out to E. L. Doheny and signed by Ex-Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall, announced with pride her purchase for $15,000 of the original manuscript of Johannes Brahms's First Symphony. Said she: "Isn't it thrilling...