Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indicted by a U. S. grand jury at Boston were the first defendants in a wages and hours criminal prosecution. Defendants: Brown's Contract Stitching, Inc. of Lawrence, Mass. Charge: that Brown paid less than 25? an hour, falsified records. Maximum penalties: $10,000 fine for a first offense; $10,000 and six months in prison for a second. Said Elmer Andrews, apprised of the indictment: "The act has teeth in it and the Administration proposes to enforce...
...railbirds had underestimated a plain brown filly, Congressman Richard Kleberg's Ciencia (Spanish for Science, her dam's name), who was bred on the vast open spaces of his family's famed King Ranch,** Coming into the stretch, Ciencia, who had been trailing like a dogie up to the half-mile pole, suddenly rushed up,*** swept past the leaders, Porter's Mite and Bessie Franzheim's Xalapa Clown. When the dust had settled, 50,000 gasping spectators realized that a filly had won the Santa Anita Derby for the first time...
When 56-year-old Pianist-Composer Percy Grainger stepped off a train in Wausau, Wis., he wore no hat or overcoat, sported white ducks and an old brown jacket, carried an umbrella, a knapsack on his back. Because it was -7°F., police promptly ran him in. Composer Grainger finally identified himself, explained that he dislikes heavy clothing, has not worn a hat in 20 years, carries the umbrella simply to keep snow out of his bushy hair...
...developed a good crop of mermen this year, but as they approach the important part of their schedule, they find that their place in the sun is endangered by some League brethren who have grown prodigiously big. Lacking the services of swimmer Curwen, the Crimson were rebuffed by overgrown Brown, but Saturday night they really take on a full-fledged big fellow in Princeton...
Loyalist Foreign Minister Julio Alvárez del Vayo flew from Madrid to France to persuade Senior Azaña to return to Loyalist Spain and thus rob Britain and France of an excuse to withdraw recognition. Long and heated conferences took place in the big, flat-faced brown stucco Spanish Embassy on the Avenue George V in Paris. But Don Manuel, who has been wanting to surrender since the Rebels took Teruel a year ago, flatly refused to leave the safety of Paris. Peace at any price was his line. General Vicente Rojo, Loyalist Chief of Staff who crossed...