Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Kubec Glasmon, 40, Polish-born screen writer; of heart disease; in Beverly Hills, Calif. A druggist during Prohibition on Chicago's gang-infested West Side, short, mild-mannered Kubec Glasmon teamed up with an ex-newshawk, John Bright, wrote a series of gangster movies, Public Enemy, Smart Money, Blonde Crazy, Taxi...
Last fortnight all six women members of Congress-Arkansas' Senator Hattie Caraway, Representatives Caroline O'Day (N. Y.), Edith Nourse Rogers (Mass.), Mary T. Norton (N. J.), Nan W. Honeyman (Ore.), Virginia E. Jenckes (Ind.)- lined up chain-gang fashion for a group photograph (see cut). They had gathered to honor the prize winner of a contest conducted by the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee...
...When they agreed to put up $3,500,000 in cash, keep the line independent and give General Manager Rickenbacker complete operating control, John Hertz gracefully folded his wings and yielded the battle. Said Eddie Rickenbacker: "I am glad to be able to save the airline for the gang that made...
Paris often presents the weak aspect of a gang of disunited politicians tearing each other's hair and kicking the slats out of the latest Cabinet. But last week's vote of 439-to-2 showed what Frenchmen do when they must. The might and unity of the Republic, not the prestige of Chautemps & Delbos, both ephemeral Politicians, were behind their announcement to the Chamber last week that France will...
From her office at the local Workers Alliance, Emma Tenayuca continued to pull strings with the assistance of her "gang,'' some 300 devoted followers whom she deploys with a masterly hand in picket line or mass meeting. But by week's end the strike had gone into the legal trenches with hearings, investigations, applications for injunctions and loud demands to the Governor for Texas Rangers to enforce civil liberties in San Antonio...