Word: curbings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William J. ("Wild Bill") Rooney, Chicago Sheet Metal Workers' Union boss, paced the sidewalk in front of his house one afternoon last week. A dark blue sedan drew up to the curb. One of the three occupants shouted: "Hi, Billy!" Boss Rooney, expecting his own car, turned. Three shots racketed through the street. Boss Rooney slumped to his knees. His cigar fell from his mouth and rolled along the sidewalk, with him sprawling after it. He was the second labor leader to be murdered in Chicago in five weeks...
...this news was not discouraging to Noranda's shareholders, all of whom have had faith that the spectacular history of Noranda cannot continue dull for long. For a few days after President Murdoch's report the stock remained steady on the New York Curb and Toronto Stock Exchange at $17. Then suddenly, as if in answer to the shareholders' faith, it bubbled with activity, soared to $27 on the news that once again Noranda had struck a new gold vein, that ore yielding as high as $16.20 to the ton had been located.* Within one week more...
Shall progressive Turkey set an example to the world, drastically curb narcotic shipments, voluntarily curtail opium growing in Turkey...
...them and their parents invitations to the significant din ners, theatre-parties, dances and house-parties of the season. Students meeting these requirements will be given credit for mastery in the Science of Society. ... In ... economics . . . the texts used are the daily reports of the Stock Exchange and the Curb Market, the Wall . Street Journal and Bradstreet. ... In athletics . . . squash, tennis, golf, polo, bridge and backgammon [will be taught]. . . . But students . . . must learn to talk intimately of the characteristics of the notable players, criticize the leading coaches, and speak convincingly about . . . [other] athletics. ... At the end of the four-year...
...believe that public opinion has failed to curb this annoyance because: (1) it has not been powerful enough and (2) it has not taken into consideration the fact that those who are of such character as to find it expedient to disturb the peace in this most obnoxious manner cannot be reached by ordinary means, by reserved remonstrances of the CRIMSON, nor, at the other extreme, by gifts of bibs and lollypops by the metropolitan dailies...