Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snellenburg's answered Mayor Davis' blast by filing against the mayor not one but nine defamation suits-one for each partner and one for the corporation...
Following his sudden blast last fortnight when he called NLRB a "kangaroo court" which should be scrapped before it made "economic hash of our national welfare," Senator Gerald P. Nye last week resumed fire on the floor of the Senate, attacking the Board for failure to hold an election in Philadelphia's strike-wrecked Apex Hosiery Co. (TIME, July 5). The North Dakota Senator trumpeted: "If a great Government is going to tolerate administration by a board or a bureau which in turn is going to tolerate practices of that kind, the hour is not far off when Americans...
...Sound-Off. Startling though this blast at a friendly Administration was, it was not so startling as an attack on the Labor Board last week from Senator Gerald P. Nye, usually rated proLabor. Comparing it to a "kangaroo court," the North Dakota Senator cried: "The National Labor Relations Board seems to have gone out of its way to demonstrate to the public that it is a partisan body rather than a judicial institution. It has disqualified itself as a referee between management and workers...
policemen's lips were drawn, and they seemed intoxicated with tension. . . . Then it seemed like the blast of a whistle and all hell seemed to break loose. I went down, struck on the left side of my face." Blinded in one eye, he ran to a ditch. A tear-gas bomb exploded at his right, blinding him in the other eye. Stumbling on, he was picked up by some fleeing demonstrators in a car, then dragged out by police, who threw him in a patrol wagon...
...Connecticut, the Stony Creek Theatre, the Chapel Playhouse (Guilford), the new Litchfield Playhouse and Connecticut Players (Milford) were all to be going full blast by July 4. The Ivoryton Playhouse, now seven years old, revives shortly thereafter. An unusual arrangement has been made by Day Tuttle and Richard Skinner of the Westchester Playhouse at Mt. Kisco, N. Y. Lawrence Langner, one of the few urban producers who still retains an interest in summer stock, has handed over to them the management of his Country Playhouse at Westport for the summer. Shows which open in the Mt. Kisco theatre will play...