Word: hard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angel Island in San Francisco Bay, these questions & answers started and summarized the most important deportation hearing of the decade. Answerer was Harry Bridges, the long-nosed bony Australian whose power over Pacific longshore labor won him top rank in C. I. O. Hanging on his answers was hard-boiled Dean James M. ("Chink") Landis of Harvard Law School, former head of SEC, whom Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins drafted as special examiner. Also attentive, though not in the little dining room, were large shipping and industrial interests to whom Laborite Bridges personifies Satan; eminent politicians to whom the labor...
...German-speaking people who, by the Treaty of St. Germain signed in 1919, were transferred from Austrian to Italian sovereignty. Last week the Fascists and the Nazis, having long soft-pedaled this delicate situation, decided to solve it for once and for all. The method they chose was the hard way-a transfer of the population, not the territory, back to Greater Germany...
...talks on U. S. cinema, Broadway gossip, other U. S. small talk. Because U. S. programs, unlike the German and Italian, were always on time, were delivered by fluent linguists (usually Latin-Americans), they became highly popular. But obstructive mountains, and interference from European stations make it hard for South Americans to hear...
Died. Clarence Mott Woolley Jr., 22, captain and outstanding player of Yale's 1939 polo team; of a brain concussion after a hard spill during a Brook League match; in Manhattan...
Fortnight ago athletic A. G. Spalding & Bros, (recently recapitalized) listed its new no par first preferred stock on the New York Curb Exchange. Broker Edward Parry Sykes, 43, appointed specialist in the stock two days before, arrived late at work that morning. Maybe that contributed to his hard luck. There were no bids and no offers. So he made some quick calculations about what price to quote. Considering Spalding's balance sheet and the price of the old preferred, he decided to quote 30 bid, 33 offered (ten shares each...