Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confusion, not quite sure whether he had won or lost, but pleasurably certain that he had been in the nation's eye almost a solid fortnight, "Kingfish" Long strutted over to the Mayflower Hotel to pound on Franklin Roosevelt's door...
Edward Ecklund, 50, and Harry Stumm, 48, paymasters, were entering the door of the almost completed new House Office Building at the southern edge of the Capitol Plaza in Washington last week. In Paymaster Stumm's pocket was a $2,000 payroll for the painters on the construction job. Overhead, through the bare twigs of trees, bronze Freedom stood guard on the great white dome of national Authority. Across the street rose the old House Office building, usually well policed. But neither Freedom nor police prevented what happened to Paymaster Ecklund and Paymaster Stumm...
...That Japan finds the Great Powers' doctrine of the "open door" in the Far East to have been nullified by events: "We see that all countries are busily engaged in erecting artificial trade barriers. ... As a result of this policy of the closed door, which is now practiced every- where in trade and industry, the universally cherished principle of freedom of trade has been entirely reversed...
Just before Christmas silent-footed persons posted the above notice on the door of Japan-born Alvin K. Aurell, son of a Kansas-born missionary, today branch manager in Yokohama for Singer Sewing Machine Co. Mr. Aurell was not exactly alarmed. Singer's labor troubles in Japan began more than a year ago, caused the company to close its Osaka and Kobe branches last November. Last week Manager Aurell sat calmly eating his lunch when a large motor truck drove up to his branch, dumped a load of cordwood in front of the door...
...worry about it. A guard came by and said, "Don't worry, you'll probably get off with a suspended sentence or a light fine tomorrow." When the guard came back later he found his prisoner had hanged himself to the crossbar of the cell door with his belt. Policemen who searched Oscar Winheld's home to see if he really did have some money, found none. Some of them figured that the Depression had killed Oscar Winheld...