Word: brunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MONTREAL, Feb. 16:--The Padlock Law is the first shield erected by a reactionary finance capital in Quebec to save it from the little silver bullets of free thought and speech. The straw man that is bearing the brunt of the Padlock Law is the red spectre of Communism. In its name the 'Red Raiders' have made use of the padlock some sixty times to date...
...chairman, Colby M. Chester asked rhetorical questions: "Will the Government sit down with Business and Labor? Will it invite this co-operation?" This modest suggestion made a great impression on George Harrison, head of A. F. of L.'s Brotherhood of Railway Clerks. Since Labor was sharing the brunt of Recession in layoffs and shortened hours, Laborman Harrison took it upon himself to bring Government and Business face to face. Soon he was scurrying back & forth between the President's son James and the better Manhattan clubs, and five men were selected to do the talking: Mr. Chester...
Although several of the team's main props, including Robert Shaw '37 and Charley Rogers '37, graduated last year, Captain Emerson and Colin MacClaurin '38 remain to bear the brunt of the competition. It is expected that there will be additional good material among the 150 skiers who reported on Monday...
...West Pointers are not pinning their hopes on the little fellow to bear the brunt of the mascoting. For, as one Academy officer recently remarked, "In connection with the small mule, we still use the big G-I mule...
...Puritans Joe Peden and "Little Joe" Hindle carried the mail, with the latter's third period collin cornor kick having a lot to do with halting any Dudley march before it could organize. In the Winthrop line, Charley Moore and "Blubber" Peters bore the brunt...