Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...required by law the Treasury last week made public the voluminous list of taxes it had refunded for the fiscal year 1929 to thousands of corporations and citizens the country over. Newsmen in Washington scribbled down columns of local names and figures, telegraphed them to home papers. So great was the public curiosity about private financial affairs that the New York Times printed eight pages solid with taxpayers' names and their refunds...
Police Detective Johnson was demoted to Patrolman and scheduled to be tried for conduct unbecoming an officer. It was at this trial, which began last week in New York under the personal supervision of dapper Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen, that the Bronx banquet began to seem an astonishing affair...
Before Magistrate Sylvester Sabbatino in Brooklyn, N. Y., one day last week stood David Weiss, 17, U. S. Junior Communist Leaguer, charged with soliciting alms for textile strikers...
...Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news...
Because they are two of the mummest, most standoffish men in Germany, there was excitement last week when a warm handclasp and a brief joint statement momentarily linked those titanic shipping rivals, diminutive, roly-poly General Director Carl Stimming of North German Lloyd and tall, immaculate General Director Dr. Wilhelm Cuno of Hamburg-American...