Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plain what was no secret: that, as one of the earliest Brain Trusters, he does not see eye to eye with some of the President's present economic advisers. The parting, however, was highly amicable. Mr. Berle cited his understanding with the President that when "certain work was got forward" he might go home. Last week's report was that this "certain work was an Anglo-American trade treaty...
...residential Ridgewood, N. J., Mayor Frank D. Livermore got tired of seeing pickets of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen's Union (A. F. of L.) trudging up & down in front of the Charles F. Wenger stores carrying angry strike signs. Last week, Mayor Livermore submitted to his borough commission a new idea for restricting picketing. He proposed an ordinance imposing a $50 weekly license fee on anyone who wants to carry a sign on Ridgewood's streets. Penalties: $200 fine or 90 days in jail or both. His argument: while a man's civil liberties...
Taking heart, 27 department store operators got together to squelch union demands for a 35-hour week. Negotiations also stalled between unions and chain grocery store operators on the same issue. When the potent Waterfront Employers Association indicated it would adopt a strong line when its members' contracts with C.I.O. longshoremen expire September 30, gloomy San Franciscans (already faced with a shortage of drugs and liquor by the warehouse shutdown) began reminiscing about the 1934 General Strike...
...Collins (alias Chester Howard), 27 got out of San Quentin Prison last month after doing a stretch for a payroll hold-up in San Diego. Last week in Reno, Nev. he ran across two former pals who were with him on the San Diego job. They urged him to join them in a new robbery. He said he was going straight. To fortify his soul he attended evening services at the Reno Baptist Church...
...ever written in the dingy annals of U. S. prisons: Stifled, maddened by the heat, the prisoners evidently fought savagely to get water from the "hoppers," air through the tiny ventilating holes. They had stuffed clothing into the "hoppers" to flood the floors, lain down in the water, which got so hot it scalded them. If they touched the metal doors, their naked bodies were scorched. The dead men's feet were puffed, their flesh dehydrated until it turned to powder...