Word: blowup
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day, in an 18-hole playoff, while the gallery was still talking about Sam Snead's heart-breaking blowup that snatched the championship from him on the very last of the 72 holes, Craig Wood furnished the 5,000 spectators with a golf round even more dramatic. On that same 18th hole where an 8 brought tragedy to Snead, Wood, leading Nelson by one stroke, hooked his second shot. The ball struck a spectator flush on the temple, knocked him unconscious. Completely unnerved as State troopers carried the stricken man off to the clubhouse, Wood flubbed an eight...
...Infield Blowup...
Atlantic developments thus became a reversal of the situation in San Francisco, where there was no split in Labor, but the possibility of one in Capital. For two months before last week's blowup, negotiations had been going on to replace the agreement made between maritime labor and the shipowners after the gory 1934 general strike. That agreement expired Sept. 30, was continued by truces. Spokesman for Labor was Longshoreman Bridges. Spokesman for the shipowners was Chairman Tom G. Plant of the Waterfront Employers' Association. Bridges demanded higher pay, a six-hour day, recognition of the unity...
...Chancellor Hitler was arranged last week by that most ominous go-between Lieut. Colonel Franz von Papen. In the first years of the World War, while military attache at the German Embassy in Washington, he was charged by the U. S. Secret Service with paying for the projected blowup of the Welland Canal. It was von Papen who went between Hitler and von Hindenburg, with the ultimate result that an Austrian-born painter of picture post cards became Dictator of Germany. To escape assassination by Nazi radicals who hate him, swank Franz von Papen became Minister in Vienna (TIME...
...Allen did not share in his hero's glory as Secretary of Commerce or in the greater glory yet to come. What happened to the Hoover-Allen association has long been a subject of speculation among political observers. There were rumors of a blowup, a serious breach. These stories are now hotly denied by Ben Allen, and his friends testify that the only resentment he ever displayed in the years of separation was against those who he felt had shouldered him out of his place at Mr. Hoover's writing elbow. Ben Allen declares that he returned...