Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...copies); Automatic Voting Machine Corp. (12); Monolith and Medusa Portland Cement Companies. Hammermill Paper Co. (10 each); California Portland Cement Co., Deere & Co. (8 each); The Carborundum Co., Inland Steel Co., Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. (4 each). Other bibliophiles: Walter P. Chrysler (50 copies), Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, International Association of Machinists, American Federated Hose Workers of Philadelphia (4 each); Charles M. Schwab...
...thousands of prisoners awaiting trial for political offenses and common crimes ranging from pocket-picking to murder, committed before May 20, would be turned out of Cuba's crowded jails. In addition, hundreds of political exiles would be free to return, even onetime (1925-33) President Gerardo ("The Butcher") Machado, now in Montreal where his secretary announced he would be likely to stay. If this move was calculated to throw a scare into Boss Batista's restive Congress it worked too well, for the Senators immediately forgot the budget to shriek that soon Havana would be full...
They Gave Him A Gun (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). "I live for my country and work for it . . .'' says Jimmy (Franchot Tone) in this picture, "but when they order me to travel 3.000 miles to be a butcher, I quit." This is just after he has fainted from disgust during a 1917 bayonet drill and is being revived by his buddy, Fred (Spencer Tracy). At the front, equipped with a high-powered rifle and good eyesight, Jimmy's attitude changes. When luck puts him in a church steeple with a perfect chance to pick off five members...
...many Americans thought, it would have been like a circus parade. Bits of news like these were few in the pages of space given to the Coronation, for correspondents in the position of the Grand Duchess Marie did not want to cable, as the Associated Press did, that a butcher in the East end wrote God Save the King across his shop in sausages. Many persons believe that from the point of view of the United States the press took the affair too seriously. It is true that the New York Times sent Birchall from Berlin, but he was countered...
Driving in Dublin, Irish Free State President Eamon de Valera and his daughter Maureen collided with a butcher's truck...