Word: faces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scared to speak to them in person. Attempting to report this to his immediate superior by telephone, the underling was connected by mistake with Homer Martin. Leaping from bed the young U. A. W. president, a onetime national hop, step & jump champion, taxied to the Fisher plant, there to face the men who had threatened to turn a fire hose on him if he stuck his head in the gate. At the end of an hour and twenty minutes' palaver President Martin emerged unscathed, the rebels trailing behind him to announce to waiting reporters: "It's all over...
...Pressman Jack Belden, whose tough job was to cover the headlong Chinese flight from Taiyuan in the North: ''Scenes of horror marked the retreat of the Chinese, including former Communist corps. Screaming and running like maniacs, [were] soldiers whose skin had been burned from their hands and face, splashed by sulphur bombs...
...comparable in quality to those of capitalist industry. So she was advanced to the post of Vice Commissar for the Food Industry. Appointed to take her place was a plump, personable ex-scrubwoman, Mme Tatiana Morozova, until last week director of the New Dawn perfume & face powder factory...
...Last week he made another report, not on sea ships but on the relation of sea ships to airships. To many a landlubber the second report may seem like a Utopian dream, except that it also bears the earmarks of Joe Kennedy's hard-headed eagerness to face economic facts. Chairman Kennedy's plan is not to junk the shipping lines which it is his job to salvage, but to encourage them to extend their services into...
...Turner and Lou Fette, pitching sensations who turned in 20 wins apiece for Boston in their first year of major league ball, he had nothing but praise. "These boys ironed out the defects that originally kept them out of the majors by years of hard work in the face of plenty of discouragement...