Word: fled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gandhi's romantic disciples thought he would die. A German Jewess, Dr. Margaret Spiegel, having fled to him from Germany and the Nazis, went on a counter fast. She thought he would end his fast because "he cannot let me die." On the third day another disciple told her she was making Gandhi worry, persuaded her to take a glass of milk and two oranges. A Buddhist monk. Tan Yu-shan, began a sympathy "fast unto death...
...something more than a meal at the formal dinner given in their honor at the University of Iowa. Harry Breene, Iowa City's newly elected Republican Mayor, a onetime railroad ticket agent, slipped, sprawled headlong into a fountain. He crawled out spluttering. shook water on nearby guests, fled in confusion. Nonplussed, Jacob Van der Zee. Iowa's Rhodes Scholarship committeeman, ordered the banquet to proceed. Local newspapers loyally suppressed their best story in years...
...return to the Government all their gold holdings above $100 under pain of $10,000 fine and ten years imprisonment. Since March 6 nearly a billion dollars in gold had flowed back to the Treasury but some $700,000,000 was still in hiding. Some of this had fled abroad; some of it had been lost: much of it was in the hands of well-to-do citizens from whom direst threats of prosecution could not blast it loose. Their position had able supporters. Senator Glass did not think the Government had the legal authority to force a citizen...
...half ago when he offered the only serious resistance to Japanese invasion of Manchuria (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931 et seq.). Immediately thereafter he put on an exhibition of double-crossing unrivalled even among the Chinese. Having first received thousands of dollars from his patriotic countrymen, he then fled before the Japanese advance, then accepted a reputed bribe of $3,000,000 gold to be first War Minister of the independent Manchukuo puppet state. Next he slipped off to remote Northern Manchuria and announced his undying opposition to Japan again; this time, according to legend, accepting a few contributions from Soviet...
...Baltimore last week Harry Allen Overstreet, head of the Philosophy Department at the College of the City of New York, iconoclastically told a Child Study Association meeting that Casabianca, the 13-year-old boy who stood on the burning deck whence all but he had fled, was a "moron without sense enough to respond to a new situation...