Word: handed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours later, the new black Buick sedan of Edward Schneider was found parked in the middle of Fairfax Bridge across the Missouri River. In it were records of Pendergast companies and two suicide notes to Schneider relatives. In dust on the bridge railing were two hand marks and a heel print, such as a man might make in climbing over to end it all. Two miles downstream, Schneider's grey hat floated inshore...
Last week, as a "final offer," the operators' spokesmen proposed not only to continue checking off (i. e., collecting) the dues of Lewis miners, but to deduct an equal amount from nonmembers' paychecks as well and hand it over to the union. In addition, they would promise to deal only with the Lewis union in so far as the Wagner Act permits. John Lewis pondered it, finally agreed with his own lawyers that it was probably illegal...
...request." The Commissar, it was explained later, was ill, had been suffering from heart disease. His job would henceforth be taken by Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, President of the Council of People's Commissars, a member of the all-powerful Political Bureau of the Communist Party, right-hand man to Dictator Joseph Stalin for some 15 years...
...that investigation revealed that two of the men who had been turned down by the House of their choice shared the following positions: Jubilee Chairman, Smoker Committee, Red Book Business Manager, football managing, Union Committee, hockey and golf teams, and Phillips Brooks House work with the Undergraduate Faculty, Hand Book, and Social Service. One is in group 5; the other in group...
...Littauer is already assured of renown by the building which he so generously gave and which bears his name. But his ideas on the subject of public administration, perhaps the most important part of his gift, have still to be perpetuated. It is therefore up to the hand-picked fellows of the Graduate School of Public Administration, which is housed in the Littauer Center, to carry forth into the world the results of their research. For as Dean Williams has said, the emphasis of the School will be upon investigation and research rather than upon formal instruction. Through the agency...