Word: sons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...margin, 162,688-to-136,264. Pat Harrison, unembarrassed by jibes at his constant switching, was now embarrassed in the way a politician best understands it. Apparently faded were his hopes of appearing at the 1940 Democratic National Convention in a good trading position as Mississippi's Favorite Son, for now Bilbo and Johnson will have first say in naming Mississippi's 18 delegates. And "The Man," long-standing Third Termite for Franklin Roosevelt, could lounge happily on the green satin chairs of his lonesome 25-room mansion near Poplarville, Miss...
Margaret Campbell's lackwit son confessed that he killed her, was adjudged insane by two alienists. Last week Los Angeles police, on mass guard in the Hollywood area, nabbed a bearded, slender runaway just after a robbery was reported. In his car they found a 2 by 4 bludgeon, at his home shoes which fitted the cast of a footprint near where Delia Bogard was felled. De Witt Clinton Cook, 20, a marauding printer who had learned the fine points of robbery at an Iowa reform school, confessed that he killed Anya Sosoyeva, struck down Delia Bogard, yielded...
...atmosphere was relaxed. Italy was ready to defend herself if attacked, was the word. Command of Italy's armies was divided between General Graziani, no disciple of the Germans, and Crown Prince Umberto, no favorite of Mussolini's but a great favorite (as his father's son) with the people...
...home*; to the Ruhr to try to squeeze reparations out of the Germans; to Syria to quell the Druses and give ancient Damascus its first organized street-sweeping service. From 1931 to 1935 he commanded the armies of France, for he was one cavalryman with brains, the "spiritual son" of the great Foch...
...drink cool water but, she told the youngest camel, "that's just one of the things that can never possibly be. ... Because your father never took out any life insurance." "What about the caravan of white camels with solid gold hoofs that goes right around the earth?" her son objected. "Hooey," said his hard-Boyled mother. "A lot of hooey...