Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...give up its demand for a 15% wage cut if a bill for railroad relief was allowed to pass Congress, the session closed without anything being done for the railroads. Result: unless the Interstate Commerce Commission closes its eyes to the facts, and certifies to the RFC that the hard-pressed roads can repay loans made to them (the necessary requisite for RFC loans), it is highly likely that within a few months most U. S. railroads will be bankrupt...
...Clifford E. Clinton, boyish owner of the "World's Largest Cafeteria" in downtown Los Angeles, customers brought so many tales of civic vice and dishonesty that last year he set up shop as a political reformer. With a few aroused sympathizers he hired a hard-boiled lawyer, Arthur Brigham Rose. Lawyer Rose hired an equally hard-boiled private investigator, Harry Raymond, onetime Los Angeles patrolman and later Police Chief of San Diego. By last week, Clifford Clinton and his cafeteria reform party had managed to stir up the biggest Los Angeles political stench in a decade...
...Crimson batsmen found it hard going against the pitching of Moe Jubitz, who allowed only four safeties and struck out nine. Jubitz, however, walked seven, but his teammates saved...
Recalled last week in closed session for the purpose of naming names, Commissioner Payne seemed pretty much of a fizzle. He showed up with no evidence against his fellow Commissioners. He did repeat the names of a half-dozen well-known lobbyists. Nevertheless, the Rules Committee, led by its hard-boiled chairman, Tammanyite John Joseph O'Connor, voted for an investigation. In doing so they overrode protests by FCC Chairman Frank Ramsay McNinch, who well knew that a comprehensive investigation would involve not only broadcasters but also his Commission. He is already conducting a monopoly investigation...
...initiated last week into the Circus Saints & Sinners Club, (which is devoted to the care of retired circus performers), forced to wear costumes depicting the life of a Rockefeller from babyhood to old age. Announcer Tex O'Rourke, master of ceremonies, supplied a running commentary: "He worked hard and long in the Texas oilfields until, at the end of one week, he rose to vice president. After attaining this position, he took a year's vacation...