Word: circuiter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most vibrating springboard in Washington is the SEC chairmanship. From it Joseph P. Kennedy took off to the Maritime Commission and the Court of St. James's; James M. Landis to the deanship of Harvard Law School; William O. Douglas to the Supreme Court; Jerome Frank to the Circuit Court of Appeals...
...farmers' beach patrol was on watch, night after night, regardless of Senatorial questions and military reverses, with "an eye to the sky and an ear to the ground." The volunteer harbor patrol at Seattle, run by the man who was once the fastest tap dancer on the Pantages circuit, cruised over Lake Washington. In the immense structural shop at the Charleston Navy Yard the work went on: the steel plates rumbled through the press rolls in surging roars, the hydraulic presses crunched down, the giant shears clamped through metal, the brilliant blue glare from the arc welders shot...
Bold Henry Ford once lashed out. He distributed pamphlets appealing to his men not to join a union. The NLRB cracked down on him, although a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals later declined to uphold the board...
...also cracked down on Virginia Electric & Power Co., charging that the company had appealed to its employes in bulletins and speeches "to bargain . . . without the intervention of any 'outside' union," had furthermore encouraged an "employer-dominated union," and ordered the company to stop "unfair labor practices." The Circuit Court of Appeals refused to uphold the order. NLRB took the case to the Supreme Court...
...plane he was demonstrating for Charles Lindbergh, during the latter's visit to Germany in 1936, fell apart in the air. Udet parachuted to safety. In an Alpine circuit race he fouled his propeller in a 30,000-volt trolley wire. The plane lost its tail and Udet got a scratch...