Word: doves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime in their dove-papered suite in Cleveland's Hotel Hollenden (just a short way from where Murderer Robert Irwin was working as a bar boy-see p. 11), the members of the Federal Steel Mediation Board did their best to arrange a permanent peace. A compromise proposal- that the steel companies make agreements subject to Labor Board elections-was turned down flat by the steelmasters, though Mediator Charles Phelps Taft II was sure that the union would have accepted it or some variant of that proposal. The steel companies now maintained that the question was not. and never...
...Popular Front a "safe majority" in the Chamber composed of Radical Socialists, Socialists and Communists. These last have no Cabinet seats. At the emergency session it was the Radical Socialists and Socialists who fell to quarreling, with luckless Premier Blum fluttering between them in his accustomed role as the dove of Popular Front peace. After almost two hours' wrangle it was decided to ask Parliament to grant the Cabinet dictatorial powers over French economy and finance for six weeks. Once these had been voted, the Cabinet could then in a more tranquil atmosphere decide what should be done...
...students were driving over the bridge when they noticed a hat and tie lying on the railing. Running back to investigate they observed White in the water below, and while Dubiel ran for the nearest police box, Giles dove into the water and swam with the unconscious victim to the shore, where he was revived by Giles and the police, who soon arrived...
...onetime first-string pilot in the French Air Corps, described how five Rebel pursuit ships dived at him as he approached Bilbao along the coastline at about 600 ft. Their bullets halted his port engine, wounded pilot and a woman passenger. Not pausing to let down his wheels, he dove for a pancake landing in a field...
According to Valencia: as the Palma-bound air-raiders passed overhead, the Deutschland suddenly opened fire with its 14 anti-aircraft guns. The Leftist planes circled, dove, dropped twelve bombs. Four scored direct hits...