Word: boons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City, the workers were called out and lost a week to date to learn which of two unions had jurisdiction. It could have been decided while the work was going on. The workers cannot make up lost time with overtime. The NRA gave Labor its greatest boon, but it never warned Labor's leaders of their responsibilities. . . . When did the NRA say "Strike, then ask questions'"? The public certainly is damned by them...
...Garnett, a deranged Confederate veteran whom she had dismissed for obscenity in a whist game, attempted to shoot her in the Palace Hotel. A Major J. W. McLung who struggled with the man was shot and killed. The trial and all the life of Lily Hitchcock Coit were a boon to California journalism. On the advice of friends she went abroad, and abroad she stayed almost continuously until...
...trigger for political comfort. The anti-Tammany democracy would have done more wisely if they had supported LaGuardia and forgotten the specious McKee, for the Major will be too heavily saddled with his colleagues to undertake any really unpleasant reforms, and would thus combine safety for Roosevelt with boon for the metropolis...
...Walker also showed that the recent treasury order, permitting gold to be sold abroad at the world price, which was heralded as a boon to the mining companies, was also a step toward unemployment relief in that it increased by fifty percent the earnings of the small prospector and panner, who has hitherto been obliged to sell at twenty dollars announce while in Canada and other countries gold was bringing a premium as high as eighty-five percent. The small gold miner, however, is still harassed by the old law forcing him to divulge the source of his dust; this...
...Hill Academy near Philadelphia-and been handed an interscholastic prize by Princeton's President Hibben-he settled down to work at college, taking particular interest in economics. His presence caused Princeton little excitement. Only a few years before (Class of 1923) Princeton had had a Siamese-popular little Boon Pitrachat, who won his letter playing soccer. And even Siamese princes are not rare in the U. S.: Prince Swasti Pradish Svasti graduated from West Point; Prince Nondiyavat Svasti from Georgetown last June; Prince Tong Ti Kayou went to San Francisco in 1928 to attend high school and learn baseball...