Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through Manhattan's Grand Central Palace last week crowded 20,000 of the nation's beauty-shop operators to inspect their trade's new tools. What they saw made some of them wonder if they hadn't wandered by mistake into a house of Procrustean horror...
...expanse of the Star's city room, Roberts got General Eisenhower on the telephone in Washington. How did Ike feel about it now? Would he take a Democratic nomination? Roberts grinned around his cigar as the wire crackled with a string of cuss words. The General was angry. Hadn't he given his word? What kind of a fellow did they think...
...alone had been singled out for attack, rushed to the vicar with his story. Within a fortnight he had several hundred letters to take to the police. Burly Storekeeper Richard Knightly Storm boasted of having got his first 15 years ago: "You felt out in the cold if you hadn't received one." Relieved villagers gave the anonymous writer a jeering name: "The Big Baby...
...wasn't sure that he hadn't pitched his last ball; his arm ached badly. Said Murry Dickson sympathetically: "I had a sore arm in St. Pete back in 1940. The fellows asked me to go bowling, so I went . . . suddenly I felt a pricking pain in my forearm and elbow, but I kept bowling. When I finished the game, the pain was gone. I've never had a sore arm since...
Having failed to cripple the exchanges, Keefe threatened a "general strike" of all the brokerage houses in the Street. By week's end he surprised three houses, Shields & Co., E. F. Button & Co. and Bache & Co., by calling strikes and picketing them. Two of them hadn't even suspected that they had any unionists on their staffs. Actually, they had only a few. At Hutton, only 18 of 325 employees walked out. It looked as if Dave Keefe faced a long and probably a losing fight. Said Stock Exchange President Emil Schram: "We are prepared to function indefinitely...