Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absurd," snorted Leader Lewis in an amazing New Year's Eve broadcast in which he defied virtually the whole of U. S. Big Business, "for such a corporation to pretend that its policies are settled locally. Every one knows that decisions as to wages, hours and other conditions of employment are made at a central point for all the plants controlled by General Motors...
...Christmas Eve the "Yankee Squadron" of famed U. S. aviators headed by Bert Acosta, pilot of Admiral Byrd's transatlantic flight, at the last minute abandoned plans for a whoopee party with their wives at Biarritz, swank French resort across the Spanish frontier. They decided that they would rather raid Burgos, Generalissimo Franco's headquarters. The hundreds of incendiary bombs that they dropped on White hangars and munition dumps they jokingly described as "Messages of Christmas Cheer for the boys in Burgos...
Three weeks ago 72-year-old Editor Arthur Brisbane of the Hearstpapers began to suffer heart attacks. Last week Editor Brisbane took to bed in his Manhattan apartment. On Christmas Eve, Mr. Brisbane murmured into one of his numerous Dictaphones, brought to his bedside, a timely installment of his far-famed "Today" column: "Another Christmas has come. . . . Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-six years ago . . . 'Peace on earth, 'good will toward men'. . . ." Before he could finish, Mr. Brisbane was tired out. His son Seward furnished the final paragraph, the first writing not actually by Arthur Brisbane ever...
...Christmas Eve the three-race pari-mutuel total at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans was $107.20. The five-race total was $169.80, the seven-race $219. Taking, in order, the last digit in the dollar column in each total, the result...
That number-799-was of vast importance to hundreds of thousands of U. S. citizens, white and black, for Fair Ground mutuel totals are currently used in the best numbers games. It was particularly important last week because the play was heavy in the hope of a Christmas Eve killing. Last year a Negro on Relief in New York's black Harlem dropped dead from shock when...