Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serve discredited special interests. As guardians and trustees for great groups of individual stockholders, they wrongfully seek to carry the property and the interests entrusted to them into the arena of partisan politics. . . . "They engage in vast propaganda to spread fear and discord among the people-they would 'gang up' against the people's liberties...
Another explanation for Mr. Hutton's resignation might have been that as an anti-New Deal publicist he was sometimes misunderstood. His suggestion that Big Business "gang up" was interpreted as a bald plan to gang Franklin D. Roosevelt (TIME, Dec. 2). Though his sentiments were personal, the name Hutton has been linked to General Foods since he became chairman in 1923 and as a goodwill asset has lately shrunk in value...
...Trust sector, was discovered by the Soviet Press this year to be performing prodigies, soon was raised by Bolshevik puffs to the status of a "Hero of Labor." Russians read that Stakhanov increased his output of coal five-fold by "Stakhanovism." What he did was 'to organize a gang of three miners with such teamwork that Stakhanov, the skilled pneumatic driller, was able to spend all his time drilling out coal, while the others did the propping and panting. By this means the three got out enough coal in a six-hour shift to raise their perman output about...
...missed. Most spectacular blow against Stakhanovism is supposed to have been struck by Engineer S. Plotnikov, a member of the Communist Party up to the time of his arrest. According to the Soviet Press, Engineer Plotnikov became so vexed at Chelyabinsk by the boastful uppishness of the local Stakhanov gang that he ordered the fastest speeder-uppers to dig in an extremely dangerous (Continued on p. 28) pit of Mine No. 204. Sure enough, the pit caved in on them...
...released at two-month intervals. Its hero, famed in cowboy lore, is Hopalong Cassidy, created and kept alive in a score of Western books by Clarence E. Mulford. In this one Cassidy (William Boyd) is summoned by Jim Arnold of the S V Ranch to clean up a gang of rustlers. Cassidy brings along Johnny Nelson and Red Connors of Bar-20, plays a lone hand himself. Posing as a Texas gambler, he finds the gang's hideout, discovers that its leader is a cold-eyed Easterner who has been paying attention to Jim Arnold's daughter. Fast...