Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serious fault to find with the steel code. She flayed its low pay and long hours so effectively that the steel code was sent back into conference for revisions. Fagged by her efforts and Washington's heat, Miss Perkins dropped out of public sight for a week to catch her breath at Newcastle, Maine. She planned to address the state Federation of Labor at Springfield this week before returning to her Washington office. Madam Secretary Perkins' office is on the seventh floor of the ugly Labor Department building, sandwiched in between a garage and a cheap rooming house...
...party of fisherman friends, Herbert Clark Hoover stopped for a fried chicken dinner in Willows, Calif. Outside the hotel a bystander asked one of the party's Chinese chauffeurs if Mr. Hoover was a good fisherman. Answer: "He's a good fisherman, but he can't catch any thing...
When he was older, Maurice helped his father catch mackerel and lobsters, tended the clotted sheep on the uplands. He remembers a brush with a shark, when the slimy brute followed their small boat, his breath smelling like that of the devil himself. He recalls even more vividly the War, not because any of the Blasket people were fools enough to fight...
Good judges here believe that the president will put his program across. The country is with him and wanting leadership. It dimly realizes that purchasing power must catch up with production, and will take a chance. And when it is all over, whether it succeeds or fails, those rugged Now England individualists can call Franklin D. Roosevolt many things, but not a Tiar. He promised a New Deal...
...seven pistols, a rifle, a golf bag full of ammunition, a roll of adhesive tape and 20 ft. of gauze-regular kidnapping equipment. One gangster explained: "We were up here fishing. We got one 17-lb. muskie. The guns? Why, we had those to shoot the fish. They catch 'em big up here...