Word: escort
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Homer Martin and Richard Frankensteen, C. I. O.'s chief Detroit organizer, started from Lansing over icy midnight roads with an escort of State troopers to call the men out. And that was no easy task. John Lewis' word was by no means law to these thousands of raw recruits in his labor movement. It took Martin & Frankensteen twelve hours of driving, explaining, arguing, but finally, with bands playing and flags flying, out they all marched from the Dodge, De Soto and seven other Chrysler plants. And in marched State troopers to guard Chrysler Corp.'s property...
...Scotland Yard. These two one-time constant attendants upon Edward and Mrs. Simpson made off to England as soon as they could and last week "were holding their ground. Candidate for honors as ''the Englishman who most dislikes Mrs. Simpson" is the detective who was assigned to escort her on her flight to France. He rode in a speeding, zigzagging Buick for some 23 hours with the exasperated, nerve-racked American whose lover was about to abdicate, and who kept telling the detective he was a stupid Scotland Yard flatfoot, had not been smart enough to enable...
...diamonds is most of the Italian colony of Libya, for most of it consists of desert sands (see map, p. 23), but no Italian would dream of not defending this colonial diadem in case of need, and to Libya steamed last week nearly half the Royal Italian Navy to escort suitably and later be reviewed by His Excellency Benito Mussolini, Leader of the Party and Head of the State...
...picketers were injured in a scuffle with police when some officials tried to enter the closed Cadillac plant. In Saginaw, where anti-strike temper was described as "simply murderous," a gang ran six strike organizers out of town. As four of the organizers were proceeding to Flint under police escort, an automobile swerved into their path, forced their speeding taxicab off the road into a telephone pole, seriously injuring all four. In Anderson. Ind. some 2.000 mobsters broke up a United Automobile Workers meeting with rotten eggs, moved on to wreck the union headquarters...
...some high-flown and unblushing so-called debutantes camplain because their dutiful Harvard escort does not distinguish himself, or rather her, by his mode of attire, let them turn to the regula-illustrious Puritan ancestors...