Word: handly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grand Haven, Mich, last week worry over an adverse NLRB decision was said to have driven General Manager Arthur L. Colten of Kiddie Kover Manufacturing Co. to undue extremes. Last fortnight, Colten was found dying in his bed with a copy of the decision in his hand and a self-inflicted bullet wound in his head...
...seventeen came in with the tale of about 10,000 Chinese men between the ages of 15 and 30 who were led out of the city on the 14th [of January] to the river bank near the ferry wharf. There the Japanese opened up on them with field guns, hand grenades and machine guns. Most of them were then pushed into the river, some were burned in huge piles, and three managed to escape. Of the 10,000 the boy figured there were about 6,000 ex-soldiers and 4,000 civilians. He has a bullet wound in the chest...
...Laborite, who is a London-born Jew, took this as an anti-Semitic remark, hurled himself over to the Conservative side of the House and delivered the blow with his open hand, technically an "assault"-which is almost unprecedented in the Mother of Parliaments...
...away went Socialist Blum, hugging the fine chance he had created for again arousing proletarian wrath against "The Dotards." Technically the Cabinet need not have resigned, for in the Senate the Premier had not posed the question of confidence, but he and his Popular Front ministers trooped off to hand their resignations to President Albert Lebrun who immediately named a new Premier (see below...
...warm spring breeze should rustle his coat tails the gardenia vendor on the opposite curb would notice that the back of the gentleman's trousers has a guilty sheen, but mercifully, there is no such mischievous breeze. The cab fare amounts to 75 cents, and the gentleman hands the driver a dollar. He is embarassed to hold out his hand for the return quarter, but he takes it, and the cabbie is disgusted. Away in a cloud of gear-teeth he goes. The old gentleman turns in a show half-circle to the big, grey building, a smile...