Word: handly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the flatlands. Akron police also swarmed, commanded pickets to break up the jams around Goodyear's gates, let a nonstriking minority in and out. The jams thickened, police charged the lines. Nineteen-year-old Striker Donald Dixon was shot through the kidney, a woman through the right hand, a policeman in the face. Forty-seven others were wounded, gassed, or sufficiently knocked about to require medical attention. Police then scooted to U. R. W. headquarters, shattered its windows and drove out its occupants with tear-gas bombs...
...most potent district leaders of Tammany. When most of Tammany turned against Franklin Roosevelt, Hines remained faithful, enormously enhancing his stand-in with the New Deal. He now distributes much Federal patronage in Manhattan for Democratic National Chairman Jim Farley. Prosecutor Dewey charged that the same hand which distributes this patronage received from $500 to $1,000 per week from the policy racketeers-headed first by the late "Dutch" Schultz, since his death by that gangster's slick lawyer, "Dixie" Davis-as the price for providing political influence (with police, judges, etc.) to keep the racketeers out of jail...
...change, and within the Cabinet of Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye change has long been expected. Premier Konoye has faced the demands of industrialists and "moderate" military men in his Cabinet that Japan halt her offensive and limit the campaign to the occupation of the "conquered" territory. On the other hand, the Cabinet's military ' "extremists" insist that Japan push on to the final goal, i. e., control of all of China and the fall of Chiang Kaishek...
...front of the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, stands a 24-ft. figure of Orpheus, demigod of Music, sinewy and poised in bronze, with his great lyre lifted and one hand just sprung from the strings. In a circle of fountains below him eight listeners, wakened from death, turn outward and upward toward the music...
...disease by injections of diluted hydrochloric acid. In some cases he succeeds. He thinks his treatment works because the hydrochloric acid stimulates the production of white blood cells which destroy germs and help to heal wounds. Medical scholars pay no attention to him or his medication. On the other hand, many country doctors believe in Dr. Ferguson and use diluted hydrochloric acid (now widely sold in sterile ampules) and sometimes, somehow, cure their patients...