Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labor, both believe in political action by Labor. But their thinking processes are as different as those of Trotsky and Stalin. Theoretically the organizing team of Lewis & Bridges is about as formidable as could be lined up in the field today. But while Harry Bridges has a masterful hand with the rank & file he has never been able to work smoothly with his labor peers. This may prove to be the real weakness in the C. I. O. maritime drive, for John Lewis, who knows little about waterfront labor, will have to rely almost entirely on Harry Bridges...
...word oration on Freedom of the Press, President Stahlman, whose wit is as nimble as his sarcasm, settled down in the speaker's chair to conduct the meeting with good-natured flippancy, cutting short the long-winded, moving things along at a swift pace. Only real business at hand was the wording of an anti-Guild resolution...
Rochester was, in 1918, the anchor city of the Gannett chain. Mr. Hearst invaded it in 1922 during his last dream of a personal political career. Albany, on the other hand, had been a Hearst city (evening and Sunday Times-Union) for four years when Publisher Gannett marched there in 1928 to buy the Knickerbocker Press (morning) and News (evening). With Mr. Hearst now out of Rochester, Mr. Gannett was agreeable last week to merging the old (1842) Knickerbocker Press with his News, taking Albany's evening field for the resultant News-Press, and letting Mr. Hearst shift...
...House of Representatives' Cloak Room, Pennsylvania Congressman James P. McGranery tried to set off a firecracker under Arkansas Congressman Claude A. Fuller, held it too long, got a badly burned hand...
...only time she sees him again is when he comes back to collect the money from the last of her land. At 35, Famie looks like an old woman; kinfolk have disowned her for selling her land; her only friend is a big, serious-minded, coal-black field hand...