Word: drummings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chief Harry C. Donahue. Thereupon, Leader Mahoney took an ultimatum to Mayor William E. Schurman: unless the distillery agreed to cease "discriminating" against A. F. of L. unionists, and unless the city council ousted Police Chief Donahue, Mahoney and his men would "tie up Pekin as tight as a drum." The city answered by calling for militia...
...Automobile Co, lost $2,697,000 in 1935 as against a loss of $3,724,000 in 1934. With General Motors, Ford and Chrysler selling about 92% of 1935 cars, the little companies have hoed a hard row. Last week the Hupp plant was closed and Hupp President Vern Drum had resigned. Willys-Overland secured a court order allowing it to build 15,000 units, partly to keep labor off relief rolls...
Inside the truck, as it jolted out of town, 22 shivering blackamoors convicted of burglary, manslaughter and assorted felonies lurched and jounced on their benches. As the truck careened, a five-gallon can of gasoline and a big drum just inside the rear door gurgled, churned and occasionally slopped over. Rivulets of gasoline made crazy patterns over the pitching floor. But the cold was worse than the jouncing. Finally a big black buck named Henry pulled a piece of paper from his pocket, held a match to it, dropped it on the floor, holding out his pale palms to warm...
...fire glare as they looked back into a solid wall of flames. Two dark figures staggered back, lurched through the door, fell on the road outside, afire from head to foot. Two white guards rolled them into the snow-filled ditch to put them out. Then the drum of gasoline went up. . . . When a prison official arrived on the scene, he wired the State Prison at Kilby to ship 20 coffins to Scottsboro...
...theatre owner places a large book. Persons who wish to do so may enter their names in the book opposite numbers corresponding to which the box office keeps a book of tickets. On Bank Night, usually Monday, when receipts are normally lowest, the tickets are placed in a drum on the stage. One number is drawn from the drum and announced. If the person whose name is entered for that number in the lobby book appears on the stage within a specified time, usually three minutes, he receives a cash prize of, say, $150. If the winner fails to appear...