Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soft-coal operators under contract to John Lewis "check off" the dues of his members from their payrolls, but do not require all their workers to belong to his union...
Last week she kept her promise. Pale Horse, Pale Rider is a collection of three short novels which belong with the best of contemporary U. S. writing in this difficult form. A distinctive book, elusive as quicksilver, it has the subtlety that has marked all Miss Porter's writing, none of the preciousness that has previously marred it. Old Mortality tells of the legend-haunted girlhood and runaway marriage of Miranda, a skinny, freckle-nosed Southern girl who is such a relief after traditional Southern belles that she is almost an achievement in herself. Noon Wine is a deceptively...
...farmers hold their crop in the barns, while the Trust offers bribe prices to growers who do not belong. When recalcitrant growers refuse to join the Association, they are warned. After two warnings, masked night riders drag them out of bed, force them to destroy their own plant beds. If they still play ball with the Trust, their barns are burned. When the Trust strikes back, 2,000 armed growers march into Bardsville, seize the telephone and telegraph offices, lock up police and firemen, burn the brand-new million-dollar Trust warehouses...
Among dozens of ideas about how the U. S. should conduct its foreign relations, there is at least one policy on which nearly all citizens agree. It is a policy now 115 years old, first expressed in the Monroe Doctrine: The Americas must belong only to North and South Americans. For most of the 115 years, U. S. policy has been confined mainly to the negative side of this doctrine, keeping foreign nations out. Recently Pan American conferences, the "Good Neighbor Policy," etc. have attempted to give it some positive substance. Last week in Washington a concrete step was taken...
...case sent Al Capone to prison. He later tried (and failed) to send venerable Samuel Insull to jail for mail fraud. By the time open-faced, athletic, prematurely grey Pete Green retired to his modest private practice (mostly utilities), he had made his way among the solid Republicans who belong to the Union League Club. When they drafted him to stop Thompson, Pete Green gave jowly Big Bill as good as he took...