Word: elementalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lives and property, and overwhelmed this peaceable and quiet community by your indefensive course of conduct. . . . No labor union in our land approves or condones the erratic course you have pur sued. You do not represent union labor in its struggles and aspirations. You represent a wayward and unstable element of society...
...with its low-grade carnotite could not compete and soon dropped out of the world picture. The Belgian company enjoyed what amounted to a monopoly, producing just enough to fill the demand at its arbitrarily maintained price of $70,000 per gram. Since the medicinal uses of the element were rapidly expanding, grumblings were heard from other nations that the Belgian monopoly was cruelly greedy, especially since the cost of processing the African ore, exclusive of actual digging costs and overhead, was estimated to be not more than $10,000 per gram...
Arrival in Little Rock brought a new element into the picture. Mr. Farley had wired ahead to Arkansas' Governor Carl E. Bailey and rushed off to a breakfast appointment to urge him to appoint at once a pro-Administration Senator in Joe Robinson's place. This was a delicate problem because Governor Bailey has his eye on the seat and must soon call a special election to fill it. Already it had been suggested that he appoint Widow Ewilda Robinson, which would make Arkansas the first State to have an all-female representation in the Senate, since Arkansas...
...contradicting themselves and each other at every turn, the Chicago police convicted themselves of boobery if not butchery. Contributed by William V. Daly, assistant corporation counsel of the City of Chicago, was this odd defense of a policeman photographed clubbing an unconscious body: "You got to consider the human element...
...tall, shrill, husky Kenneth Ely Stoddard, 24, who began digging worms five years ago when he was broke and could get no other job. Now he employs 44 diggers and one packer at Boothbay harbor, supplies nearly half the total market. Because mud is a worm's fighting element, Stoddard worms are dropped in buckets of fresh salt water and kept swimming to prevent them from killing each other off before shipment. They are packed on layers of seaweed in small hampers, 100 worms to the hamper with five thrown in "to take care of the breakage." Specially cooled...