Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sailplanes stunting in formation, led by crack Pilot Jack O'Meara...
...crack down" on employers who violate codes but is powerless to deal with employes who violate its spirit. In not a single code, except that for coal, has Labor surrendered its right to strike. Its argument is that strikes are often necessary to bring NRA disputes to a head for mediation. Uppermost in many a mind last week as the American Federation of Labor opened its annual convention in Washington (see p. 16) was the stand it would take on the tide of strikes sweeping the land. William Green, president, cautioned all workers as follows: "The right to strike...
...Later on! Later on!" cried the Liverymen at each name, sure that London's Mayoral pack will be dealt in proper order from now until Doom's crack. Knowing that her husband was bound to win, Mrs. Collett watched beaming from a balcony beside the outgoing Lord Mayor, Sir Percy Greenaway, Stationer. Sedately the Aldermen, who form a small key group in the great body of Liverymen, retired to vote in private for the inevitable top card...
...fire, shot ten defenseless officers dead in their tracks. Thirty more dead officers were found in the hotel. While the living were roughly carted off to jail, their civilian sympathizers on housetops fired into the ranks of the soldier-captors, killed 20. Soon after the officers were imprisoned, the crack of rifle squads sounded grimly from behind the walls. Until late evening guerrilla warfare continued between automobile loads of soldiers and civilians. Estimated day's toll: 120 dead, 250 wounded...
...special meaning. There are no professionals in the game. Teams for the Open are organized by leaders whose position is a little bit like that of a small boy who has been given a new football. Equipped with money and mounts to outfit their teams, they select crack players for their sides. Thus last week, Greentree had reached the final by beating C. V. ("Sonny") Whitney's Westburys and Winston Guest's Templetons, who won the title last year. The Auroras, with a bye in the draw, had ridden over Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford's Hurricanes...