Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good night aboard the Rex; 600 patrons were tossing in their chips. As Attorney General Warren's boarding party approached, huge nets were flung overside on the Rex. "Stand off!" bellowed Stralla through a megaphone. "We're on the high seas...
Tony Stralla, defiant in a tan sombrero, angrily snorted that he had "enough food for a year" on board. He threatened to have the law on Attorney General Warren and his "pirates." While he stuck to his anchorage, far away in Washington large legal wheels began spinning. The House of Representatives passed and sent to the Senate a quick measure, approved by U. S. Attorney General Murphy, making it a crime to operate a gambling ship under U. S. registry. Tony Stralla had an answer for that one. If need be, said he, he would fly the flag of Japan...
...Attorney General Frank Murphy's right arm reached deep into Louisiana again last week, brought forth from a Gold Coast farm (exotically stocked with Russian caracul sheep) the huge 242-lb. frame of ex-Governor Richard W. Leche, indicted him for conspiracy to defraud the U. S. in an illegal $148,000 sale of State-owned oil lands, for which he allegedly received a $67,000 cut. Beefy Mr. Leche, always known to the late Huey Long as "Jughead," and a one-third inheritor of Huey's empire, had suddenly resigned his Governorship in June after 37 months...
Last week in Cleveland, Detroit and Pontiac, Mich., striking General Motors autoworkers fought police and non-strikers, together with their foes counted upwards of 100 casualties (but no dead). Meantime, in conference rooms at Detroit, the war was fought and at last ended by G. M.'s massive President William S. Knudsen, C. I. O.'s tiny Walter Reuther...
...United Automobile Workers called 7,500 tool and die makers, plus some plant maintenance men, on strike last month to get: 1) the union's first separate agreement for those key workers; 2) general wage hikes for them, so scaled as to level out differentials between G. M. plants; and 3) some form of exclusive recognition to help C. I. O. finish off what was left of Homer Martin's A. F. of L.-affiliated U. A. W. Messrs. Knudsen and Reuther in separate memoranda disclosed that G. M. had: consented to deal with its striking craftsmen apart...