Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moines, Iowa, Police Sergeant Dunagan, riding in a patrol wagon with a slot machine just seized in a raid, was surprised to see two nickels drop out. An honest officer, he played them back in, hit the jack pot. Out came...
...quiet of the family circle and among close friends, and even then with an occasional nervous glance over his shoulder (a movement so typical that it has been cynically dubbed 'the German glance,' 'der deutsche Blick'), only here does the harassed university teacher drop the mask-if he is able...
...variety of reasons. Recession has meant long layoffs or drastic reductions in hours for thousands of auto workers. Unemployment is always a severe test of the loyalty of union members, particularly so for U. A. W. members, most of whom are new to unionism.* With it came a drop in dues payments so sharp that the international union took all its organizers off the payroll, asked them to serve on a volunteer basis temporarily. Despite claims of increasing enrollment of Ford workers, the union is now less specific than it was last summer about the date it expects a Ford...
After last night's practice, Coach Caspar Crusher expressed satisfaction at the team's improvement. "The boys are coming along fine," he said. "That Radcliffe match was just a drop in the bucket; we're really pointing for Wellesley...
Washington has been expecting Mr. Hosford's exit ever since his commission was forced to drop its entire schedule of minima when courts found they had been prepared without requisite public hearings (TIME, Feb. 21, et seq.). However, Franklin Roosevelt last week asked Chairman Hosford to remain on duty until April 30, thus provoked an uproar. Gloating over Mr. Hosford's downfall, the minority group in the commission, which has long opposed him, called him into executive session and asked him to get out of his office at once. He did so. John L. Lewis and Senator Joseph...