Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian "Black Arrow" contingent advanced fortnight ago, broadcasting their achievement directly to Rome, whence it was rebroadcast to all Italy. Then at the gates of Tortosa they ceased broadcasting. Generalissimo Franco, after the Black Arrows had failed for eleven days to take Tortosa, last week politely left them to continue their efforts, sent a smashing 100% Rightist Spanish offensive under General Miguel Aranda driving down to the sea a few miles south of Tortosa. Viñaroz was the first seaside town to be occupied. There General Aranda's Galician troops went down to the shore and jubilantly planted...
What can you expect when a hockey team is managed by a baseball umpire? Such was the prevailing taunt among U. S. sport fans when the Chicago Black Hawks, managed by Baseball Umpire Bill Stewart, wound up the regular season four weeks ago with only 14 victories in 48 games. Ending in third place in their division of the National Hockey League. Bill Stewart's team just qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs, but few insiders gave, them an outside chance...
Last week, after the Black Hawks had swooped down on their three successive adversaries (third-place Montreal Canadiens, second-place New York Americans, top-ranking Toronto Maple Leafs, and snatched the Stanley Cup from under their blinking eyes, jeers changed to cheers. William Joseph Stewart was hailed as the "miracle man of hockey." the No. 1 sport figure...
...umpiring, his nearest approach to popular acclaim was that, while coaching baseball at Boston University, he had made a catcher out of famed Mickey Cochrane. And Manager Stewart was a hero only for a day. After being kissed on his bald head last week by each of the whooping Black Hawks, who got $1,000 apiece for their victory, Hero Stewart went home. There he packed his blue-serge suits and entrained for Boston-back to his well-worn role of baseball's butt, back to the six-month season of boos...
...black Depression year of 1932 a committee of railroad men headed by Baltimore & Ohio's fatherly Daniel Willard asked the 21 railroad unions to accept a voluntary pay cut. After three weeks' talk, the unions agreed to a 10% cut. Three years later, with recovery thundering down the tracks, employes' pay was restored to the 1932 level; last year it was raised another 7½%. Last week, facing a crisis considerably worse than 1932, the railroads again asked the 21 unions to accept a pay cut. Snapped Chairman George Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association...