Word: fricks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industrial war. Branded as "pure hokum," along with the idea that the House of Morgan had forced the settlement, were reports that the burly labor leader and the patrician steelmaster had been brought together by 1) Manhattan's First National Bank, 2) President Thomas Moses of H. C. Frick Coke Co. (a U. S. Steel subsidiary...
...first day of the matches, the 100 yard dash will take place with Charlie Hutter and Peter Frick, who tied Johnny Weismuller's record, favored to lead the field. Another close battle is anticipated in the 220 yard breast stroke with Win Jameson facing the Intercollegiate record holder, Michigan's Captain Kasley...
...train robbers. But while boyish hearts thumped to the exploits of intrepid Pinkerton men in dime novels, Labor grew to hate the name more & more. For Pinkerton's was also making money by supplying armed guards to employers with labor troubles. In 1892 hard-boiled Henry Clay Frick imported 300 "Pinks" to fight a bloody, all-day battle with his steelworkers at Homestead, Pa. Ten were killed, 30 wounded and the public loudly protested. Congress passed a curious law forbidding the Government or any District of Columbia official ever again to employ a Pinkerton operative...
Looking like a parliament of soldiers, the uniformed Reichstag waited 30 minutes for its Messiah to arrive in flaring black military breeches, well-shined boots and unadorned brown shirt. Up jumped the Reichstag to salute and "HEIL HITLER!" Down sat the Reichstag. Minister of the Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick nominated Minister-Prasident-Generaloberst Hermann Wilhelm Goring, fresh from his parleys in Rome with II Duce, to be Speaker again. Up jumped the Reichstag, thus electing him unanimously...
...Atlanta, convicted of falsifying records of the Federal Penitentiary after 25 years in its employ, Clerk Harvey Frick asked to serve sentence in his old office...