Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grins, knocks Deland's hat off. Looking out the back window at the second bus. All that can be seen is Dick Harlow on the front seat. Bolton steps in, reads the roll. Allen? "Here." Down the line to "Winter?" "You Know It." The assistant motorman closes the door. Off from in front of the Union...
...first Mr. Martin denied that he pulled a pistol, later tried to laugh it off, declaring that his life had been threatened on 500 different occasions. Said he: "Intelligent and decent citizens don't come to one's hotel room and try to break the door down. Only thugs and gangsters do that...
...unemployment but not until last summer did Congress act to find out how many-people in the U. S. are unemployed. Columnist Hugh Johnson suggested a compulsory registration along the lines of the World War draft. Massachusetts' young Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. proposed a $20,000,000 door-to-door census. In the rush of legislation at its session's end, Congress passed a bill which called for an unemployment census, appropriated $5,000,000 and left the kind of job to be done up to the New Deal. Last month, Franklin Delano Roosevelt picked...
...Washington, to be sorted by census bureau clerks. Mr. Biggers' only paid aids will be a staff of six clerks in his Department of Commerce office. Last date for mailing back cards will be Nov. 20. Preliminary results will be ready Dec. 1, will be checked by door-to-door counts in sample-cities to establish the average percentage of error. Complete tabulation should be available on or before March 1, when many workers unemployed in November may be getting spring jobs...
...Chicago, John Kay rushed out of his office to go to a hospital to visit his wife and newborn child, ran down the hall, dashed through an open elevator door, dropped five floors to his death...