Word: couching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...loud rap sounded one evening last week at the door of a banquet room in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria in which sat Utilities Tycoon Harvey Crowley Couch, Munitions Tycoon Alexis Felix du Pont, Herbert Lee Pratt, onetime board chairman of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., President Charles K. Davis of Remington Arms Co., some 200 other big & little wigs. A waiter opened the door, and in waddled Field & Stream's hearty Publisher Eltinge F. Warner disguised as Donald Duck, with a large basket on his arm. Squawking, he advanced to the speaker's table, pumped the hand...
Utilities Tycoon Harvey Couch, who owns an 863-mi. backwoods railroad line, the Louisiana & Arkansas." How did you arrive at that "backwoods" business? Ever been down in this country? Does New Orleans and the Mardi Gras mean anything? How about Dallas and the Texas' Centennial? I'm not going to give you any statistics but you can read. The L. & A. Lines link these two principal cities and freight service via the "backwoods" railroad, New Orleans to Dallas, is second morning...
Labor's good friend, Franklin Roosevelt, has a good Arkansas friend, Utilities Tycoon Harvey Couch, who owns an 863-mi. backwoods railroad line, the Louisiana & Arkansas. Last September some 400 of its engineers, firemen, brakemen and conductors walked out on strike. Demanding restoration of a wage agreement abrogated in 1933, they wanted the company to bargain jointly with their five union brotherhoods. President Peter Couch, the owner's brother, once an L. & A. fireman himself, insisted on dealing with them separately. He hired strikebreakers to keep in operation the railroad's service between Dallas, Tex., Hope...
...weeks. Then trouble popped. A train ran through an open switch, killing two of the crew. Three bridges burned. The strikers' womenfolk got hungry. At Minden, La. 200 of them swarmed on a train, stripped and beat the fireman, made the engineer telegraph his resignation to President Peter Couch...
...Hustler rolled down the tracks near Winnfield one midnight last week shotguns flashed in a bordering wood, ten loads of buckshot poured into the tram, killed a guard, wounded the engineer and fireman. Unintimidated President Couch set guards and inspectors patrolling the line from Shreveport to New Orleans, posted $5,000 reward for the murderers. While rumors crackled the Federal Government might take a hand because of interference with the mails, the National Mediation Board proclaimed its hands tied because of President Couch's refusal to arbitrate. Hopefully Louisiana's rotund Governor Leche called a peace conference...