Word: bring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week the heroes of this illusion continued to nurture it. The waning 58th annual convention of the American Federation of Labor in Houston provided an excellent stage for Mr. Green and colleagues, who made believe that "Dictator" Lewis had only to step out of C.I.O. in order to bring about peace. In Washington, Mr. Lewis gravely responded in kind: "I am willing to resign tomorrow or any day thereafter as chairman of the C.I.O. if Mr. Green will simultaneously resign as president of the A.F. of L. It then may be possible...to conclude a peace pact...
...Isidore Juffe. Mr. Juffe told the Herlands office that he had ''paid plenty" to keep out of jail in Brooklyn. District Attorney Geoghan said he had been at liberty as a stool pigeon, promptly clapped him back behind bars. This was the signal for Commissioner Herlands to bring his fight into the open, which he did by blanketing Brooklyn with 1,402 subpoenas for financial records and bank accounts, to expose the workings of the Geoghan office since...
...took them home, thinking they were Indian relics. His wife insisted that he get "that junk" out of the house. Dodd relegated them to the woodshed, but kept on talking about them. Eventually word of the find reached the ears of Curator Currelly, who asked the railroadman to bring his treasures to Toronto. After some study the archeologist became convinced that he had genuine Norse armor of the late 10th or early 11th Centuries. He sent photographs of the sword, ax and shield fragments to Norse experts in Europe, who unanimously confirmed his opinion. Then he paid Dodd...
Secondly, there is equally little doubt that this is by far the most fighting team Harvard has fielded in recent years. The kind of fight they have shown against Cornell and Army is the kind which is bound to bring the "breaks" sooner or later, "breaks" which just have not fallen right so far. Perhaps today it will be different...
...annual earnings of poets with those of professional men, defining an established poet as one in middle life, with four volumes to his credit, and "unmistakably anointed by the muses." From his books this unlucky genius can expect to get about $250 a year. Poems sold to magazines may bring him another $250. But that is the maximum, achieved by only three or four U. S. poets. Until he was 52, the late, great Edwin Arlington Robinson made less, called it a lucky year when his verse brought...