Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside the conference hall (in the Department of Labor Building) uninvited independent unions had thrown up a picket line with banners reading: "We challenge Lewis, Murray and Green to cross this picket line." Phil Murray and Bill Green sneaked in a side entrance. Lewis grunted, tossed his head and marched right on past the signs...
...mutterings fazed Earl Warren not a bit. He had campaigned and been elected as a "nonpartisan" in 1942 and he seemed determined to go merrily along his non-partisan way. To some observers this seemed politically smart. California voters are notoriously fickle and cross party lines at the drop of a good pension plan...
While it was about it, the committee also picked a 1944 winner: the International Committee of the Red Cross. Reason: Red Cross work among prisoners...
Coach Jaakko Mikkola's victory-starved harriers came through on Saturday to defeat the Kings Point cross-country aggregation 20 to 35. Captain Vincent Moriarty captured first to lead his team to its first win of the season...
Platoon Sergeant Charles Henry Smith, U.S.M.C., can go back to civilian life any time he wants. He has 232 points, three campaign ribbons with 17 Pacific battle stars and a chestful of decorations, including the Navy Cross. He also carries 39 pieces of shrapnel, a Jap bullet in his shoulder and another in his spine. But this week, as the Marine Corps celebrated its 170th birthday, indestructible, 27-year-old Sergeant Smith was glad to tell reporters that he was not going to be a civilian. He is a professional marine...