Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...urgent appeal to the public not to throw papers or ticket tape at men on horseback during the legion parade today was issued at parade headquarters Officials said that many of the paraders are inexperienced riders, and they fear a stampede if the horses bolt...
...widow is Mrs. Katherine Ryan of St. Paul, 60, tall, handsome, persistent. In 1904 her husband, the late Kingsley Ryan, patented four mechanical self-locking nut & bolt devices. In 1913 she renewed the patents, began to file suits and threaten suits against steel companies. She obtained an $18,000 settlement out of court from U. S. Steel. Although the settlement included her promised "good behaviour" in the future, she now claims the old suit had nothing to do with the patents on which her present suit is based...
...words shot about the conference room of the Fédération Aéronautique International last week. Delegates from France and Italy glared across the meeting table at delegates from Great Britain. For a time it appeared that one nation or more might bolt the Federation. Reason: Great Britain had arbitrarily upped the entry fee per plane for the 1931 Schneider trophy races for seaplanes from 5,000 francs to 200,000 francs ($8,000). France and Italy challenged Britain's right to boost the rate, declared only the Federation had such power, refused to pay. Thereupon...
...enough not to frighten seriously stand-pat-Laborite free traders, an 8% levy might serve to hold the votes of other Laborites now tempted to bolt into the Rothermere or Beaverbrook tariff camps. The 8% scheme, it was revealed last week, has been worked out for Scot MacDonald -no great economist-by the Special Commission he appointed last spring to report on tariffs as an antidote to unemployment (TIME, March...
...Alfred Emanuel Smith in the 1928 presidential campaign. Denouncing Norris as a ''no-party man" because of his continuous attacks upon the Hoover Administration, they put up William H. Stebbins, onetime State treasurer, as the party's '"regular" Senatorial candidate. Senator Norris defended his party bolt on the ground that "events at Washington have cleared me of criticism...