Word: counters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letters, glass, splinters and debris hurled every which way. The two clerks, mangled and beyond recovery, managed to gasp out details of what had happened before they died. Three other clerks who were torn, cut and bleeding badly, and the five remaining infernal packages, still intact on the mailing counter, pieced out the story further. A Mennonite minister who had been addressing mail when the two bomb-mailers were there, added descriptive details. A manhunt by Federal as well as State authorities began, focusing on antagonists in the U. S. of Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime in Italy...
...Last week Prisoner Mooney accepted honorary chairmanship of an "international workers' counter-Olympic meet" to be held at Chicago this year. Sponsored by the International Labor Defense, the meet is calculated to boycott the Los Angeles Olympics because Los Angeles is in California and California holds Mooney prisoner...
...Yale. ¶Roger F. Turner of Boston and Maribel Y. Vinson, 19, Radcliffe junior: respectively the national ice skating championship and the women's championship, each for the fifth successive year, at Manhattan's Ice Club. Following a flawless execution of the "school figures" (loop-change-loop, counter, bracket-change-bracket) Miss Vinson clinched her victory with a brilliant display of free-skating...
...carriers' plea for a 15% all-around freight rate increase (TIME, Nov. 2). This plan offered to increase the December rates if all roads would pool their income from the increase for the benefit of weak-sisters. Thinking this too much like a dole, strong roads balked, counter-proposed to loan the money where needed at a fair rate of interest. Last week the I. C. C. agreed to this by a seven-to-four majority, said individual roads could keep the increased revenues for themselves, without contributing to a common pool. Caustic dissenting opinion, written by Commissioner Joseph...
...Fascist "Storm Divisions" should seize the Government by a counter coup...