Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Theodore Bilbo was born 56 years ago on a back-country farm in south Mississippi. One of eight children, he worked as a laundryman, mill hand and news butcher to pay his way through college. From his book learning he drew dividends by teaching mathematics and Latin for six years at Aaron Academy, Nicholson High School, in grade schools at Bayou Encent, Anner, Kiln and Wiggins. At this time he was licensed but not ordained as a Southern Baptist minister. And then he got into politics...
...have lost confidence in Judge Sullivan," said a union leader. Thus the strike began. Last week two Federal mediators were trying to patch up the dispute. Chief danger was that the livestock handlers might persuade the Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen to strike in sympathy, thus closing the huge packing houses and threatening a meat famine...
...born on the morrow. Brilliant in churchly regalia, a solemn procession moved up the aisle toward the candle-decked altar. When Archbishop Leon Tourian, tall, grey-bearded primate of his Church in America, drew abreast of them, the men did what they had come for. A double-edged butcher knife flashed once, vanished in the Archbishop's abdomen. (TIME...
...anti-Tashnag spectators. There was none. Found guilty of first-degree manslaughter were Defendants Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. They faced prison sentences up to 20 years. Found guilty of first-degree murder with Death as the penalty were Defendant No. 1 who held the butcher knife, Defendant No. 2 who held the Archbishop...
...pays his bills the most promptly- butcher, baker or candlestick maker? From credit men the length & breadth of the land Professor Paul D. Converse of the University of Illinois sought the answer. When his data were assembled, the National Association of Finance Companies arranged the answers by occupational groups on a percentage basis. Last week Cleveland Trust Co. charted the results. No class was rated 100%. At the top were office clerks with 92%. Various types of storekeepers ranked below clerks and just ahead of schoolteachers (85%) and railroad trainmen. Dentists (82%) and doctors (80%) were not far ahead...