Word: behemoth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Labor is a behemoth which never forgets. When President Hoover appointed Federal Judge James Herbert Wilkerson to the Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago last winter (TIME, Jan. 25 ), Labor bitterly recalled that it was this same Judge Wilkerson whose mandate smashed the great railway shopmen's strike of 1922. At the request of Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty, Judge Wilkerson. just appointed by President Harding, issued a sweeping injunction restraining strikers all over the nation from meeting, picketing, agitating against their employers. The struggle to prevent the Senate's confirmation of Judge Wilkerson to the appellate court has been...
...Behemoth has been laid low by the jaw bone of an ass. Two days ago the Democrats rode to victory over the Republicans on the issues of prohibition and the business depression. They were good talking points. The triumph carries with it great significance: The people may not have proved a Democratic supremacy in the Senate, but they have voiced dissatisfaction with President Hoover and they have launched a preliminary attack on the eighteenth amendment...
...Philadelphia. Primo Carnera, Italian behemoth, stood up straight as his first dangerous U. S. opponent, George Godfrey, 249 Ib. Leiperville, Pa., Negro, wove toward him with a yellow smile, shuffling his feet and feinting in a manner to which he had been tutored by onetime Negro heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson. Carnera was puzzled in the first round but thereafter held Godfrey's neck immovably in the clinches, jolted him with short rights, stung him with long lefts. In the fifth round Godfrey suddenly and apparently with deliberation hit Carnera low, followed the first bad blow with a long left...
...Very simply for. such an astounding creature. I shall state in my billing: 'Biggest born beast of the briny. Bearded. Booms like a bittern. Brutal beak. Bulkiest behemoth believable...