Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lewis' interest in Detroit primaries was immediate. The occasion was C. I. O.'s first major effort to put its own candidates in office. Backed by Labor's Non-Partisan League, now nothing more than C. I. O.'s national political arm, the United Automobile Workers proposed to bid for control of the fourth city of the land. Detroit's charter provides for a nonpartisan primary with a run-off election. Since most of the municipal jobs are appointive the campaign hinges on the mayoralty and the nine seats on the common council, which...
When a big Royal Dutch Indies Airliner crashed near Palembang, Sumatra, four people were killed, famed Polish Violinist Bronislaw Hubermann broke bones in his left arm and right hand. "I shall never be able to play again," he moaned, "but thank God nothing worse happened to me!" Doctors assured him, however, that since his muscles did not appear to have been injured, his bones would knit, his playing probably would not be impaired. In great artistic anxiety, he canceled a tour of Java and Palestine, planned to go to Vienna for treatment. Week later Violinist Hubermann was in Bandoeng, Java...
Twice as many leg amputations are below the knee as above. Arm amputations are about 50-50 above and below the elbow. About 80% of artificial limbs are legs, made from willow, aluminum or fibre and costing about $200 when attached below the knee, $225 when attached above. They weigh about five pounds, last five or six years. Artificial arms cost from $125 for simple types to $250 for those including movable wrists and hands. Wearers always remove their artificial limbs upon retiring, usually stow them under the bed. They can be donned in two or three minutes. Many wearers...
...Japan after 1854 by her indefensible geographic situation. Japan in 1872 sent to the United States and Europe the important Iwakura Embassy which presented the following year an epoch-making report on Japanese policy in the modern world. It recommended that (1) Japan modernize her institutions; (2) that she arm herself in the western fashion; and (3) that she await the pre-occupation of the Western powers to use her now armament...
Michigan towns this year have had twelve successful bank robberies. Midland, Mich., fearing that her turn might come, had deputized several businessmen to bear arms against such an emergency. One morning last week two gunmen entered Midland's Chemical State Savings Bank. The bank cashier ran to the bank president's aid, and the bandits began to fire, wounded both, ran out into the street, jumped into a car. Plunk! A bullet struck the driver's arm, the car crashed. The bandits leaped out, looked around for their enemy, shot an innocent truck driver who was passing...