Word: goon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They read of Roosevelt Son-in-law John Boettiger, publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, bitterly protesting an NLRB decision, but stating he would take no further action because he did not want to jeopardize his fine relations with the American Newspaper Guild. They heard talk of an NLRB "goon squad," of the Board having relations with a union of its own employes, which it forbade industry, office delays, annoyances, talebearing, favoritism. They heard read into the record a letter from the Cincinnati regional director to Mr. Witt, telling how a friendly city editor had killed a story unfavorable...
...years ago, when Segar's comic strip appeared in. over 500 newspapers in the U.S. and 20 foreign countries, Popeye nosed out Mickey Mouse in a nationwide poll as the most popular comic-strip character. Some of the strip's phrases which have passed into the language: "goon" (a homely person, or one with a hangover), "jeep" (a girl who demands an expensive good time), "I yam what...
...Clamped down by Acting Mayor Robert Early Riley was a sort of mild martial law with a stiff midnight curfew and the entire police force on twelve hour shifts. Emergency authority was granted to hire more officers, buy additional arms and equipment and padlock the haunts of thugs and "goon squads...
...decay of magazine editors. Following a train of thought induced by mention of Messers George Horace Lorimer, Bernarr McFadden, and Lincoln Kirstein, he has publicly bewailed the loss of effusions such as those of the youthful Lincoln Steffens. What an opening there is for editors who can today, blud-goon graft and corruption with sweetness and light, as others did of yore, all with the accompaniment of sounding trumpets and falling walls. There is an intolerable dearth of succulent revelations and fat, juicy accusation, of harrowing, sordid, revolting, delightful delineation of sin and portraits of the vicious, shameless, guilt...