Word: feb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first," Lewis wrote the U.M.W. membership with the familiar flourish, "your wages were low, your hours long, your labor perilous, your health disregarded, your children without opportunity, your union weak, your fellow citizens and public representatives indifferent to your wrongs." But John L., born in Lucas, Iowa, Feb. 12, 1880, a Welsh coal miner's son who quit school after the seventh grade to dig coal in underground pits, a union organizer with a shock of red hair and red eyebrows and a Shakespearian style, fought his way to the top of the U.M.W. to change all that...
...varsity will have several more warmup contests before Ivy League play begins in earnest. The schedule: Dec. 12 at M.I.T. Dec. 16 Northeastern Dec. 17 Tufts Jan. 1-2 Poinsettia Tournament Jan. 8 at Columbia Jan. 9 at Cornell Jan. 13 at Dartmouth Jan. 16 Dartmouth Feb. 5 Cornell Feb. 6 Columbia Feb. 9 Boston College Feb. 12 Yale Feb. 13 Brown Feb. 19 at Penn Feb. 20 at Princeton Feb. 26 Princeton Feb. 27 Penn. Mar. 4 at Brown Mar. 5 at Yale
...evening of Feb. 27, 1933, just a month after Hitler's coming to power, Berlin police entered the flaming Reichstag building and arrested one Marinus van der Lubbe, a shambling young Dutchman and avowed Communist who boasted that he had started the blaze himself. Using popular indignation over the fire, Hitler arrested 4,000 Communist officials that night. The next night Chancellor Hitler persuaded aging President von Hindenburg to suspend all constitutional liberties. Communist Party gatherings and newspapers were banned, and the ban was later extended to the Socialist press. In the election a week later, Hitler...
Cornered by an aggressive newsman in the lobby of London's Ritz Hotel, Oilman Jean Paul Getty (TIME cover, Feb. 24, 1958) was persuaded to offer some reasons why the life of a billionaire is not roses all the way. "Quite a bother," to Getty, 66, and an altar-scarred veteran of five marriages, is a continual stream of letters from ladies proposing to be his sixth missus. Among his other complaints: "People keep writing me for money. They don't realize I don't have any spare cash...
POSTAL RATE HIKE on parcel post packages and other fourth class mail will go into effect Feb...