Word: back
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...church, stayed to preside as senior warden at a vestryman's meeting. Home to Uvalde on the windswept Texas plains went Vice President John Nance Garner, to a State that has been fussing about a proposed special session of its Legislature, and an appalling murder down at Comanche.* Back to his old Kentucky home (Paducah) went Senate Leader Alben Barkley...
...Back in its beginnings, a wit had cracked: "The only thing Rockefeller Center will be used for is a bird sanctuary...
...corporation had lost the first cream of 1940's new business, seemed willing to go on losing while its executives and union spokesmen bickered, belied each other, failed even to agree on what the fighting was about. Union wives badgered their men to get back to work. Union men wished heartily that "The Old Man"-stricken Board Chairman Walter P. Chrysler-was back running his automobile plants...
...letting in a little outside air on the stale quarrel, Governor Dickinson's interference had some good effect on both sides. At a later get-together with Federal Conciliator James F. Dewey, C. L O.'s Frankensteen backslapped Chrysler's Weckler, who beamed right back at Mr. Frankensteen. They had agreed on some minor provisions for a new bargaining contract but had yet to settle their prime differences: 1) whether the management alone should decide how hard & fast union men shall work, and 2) whether union men shall have first call on Chrysler jobs...
...helplessly at the mercy of Germany, Finland desperate, and the cave-digging Swedes still uncommitted to a scrap for Scandinavia, Norway delivered what looked like a spunky slap at the glowering Russian Bear by baldly reversing the Russian view of the City of Flint case and turning the ship back to its U. S. crew...