Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year (TIME, Feb. 8). President Alexander Fell Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, speaking for the running crafts (engineers, firemen & enginemen, conductors, trainmen), served notice that while railway workers might agree to continue the reduced pay scale another year on Jan. 1, they would fight to the last ditch incipient demands for further reductions by railway management. Railway unionists will meet in Chicago Dec. 7 to consolidate their position before meeting with management representatives...
...swain she picks, one Wilfrid Desert, is far from being the kind of vertebra that fits into England's backbone. First and bad enough, he is a poet. To judge from a fragment which Creator Galsworthy quotes, Poet Desert rates every ounce of obloquy he gets: Into foul ditch each dogma leads. Cursed be superstitious creeds, In every driven mind the weeds! There's but one liquor for the sane- Drink deep! Let scepticism reign And its astringence clear the brain! To the Cherrells, who had sound ideas on income (which they pronounced "ink 'em") but thought...
...doorbell at the home of the three de Andrade brothers. It was answered by their Hungarian butler. Three pro-Machado bravos pushed him aside, dashed upstairs, murdered Brother Gonzalo Freyre de Andrade, Representative; Brother Guillermo, attorney; and Brother Leopoldo, engineer. Their bodies were found in a Country Club Park ditch...
...American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; in Brookings, S. Dak. He was on his way to Alaska with Walter Sherman Gifford Jr., 14, son of A. T. & T.'s president. Young Gifford, just learning to drive, failed to note a turn in the road, drove the car into a ditch. Carter was thrown out, his neck broken. Young Gifford, his left arm crushed, was whisked to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn...
...Democrats approved of such steamroller tactics. Alfred Emanuel Smith gave a luncheon for 14 of his principal supporters who vowed they would "back to the last ditch" Mr. Shouse's selection. James Middleton Cox, the party's 1920 nominee, sided with Mr. Shouse. Declared he: "The issue is unimportant since no principle is involved. Contention over essentials exhibits virility of character, over nonessentials, stupidity. . . . The rejection of Mr. Shouse would be nothing short of studied humiliation of a man who has given his time and talents in furtherance of the most essential reorganization of any political party...