Word: headed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cats, Tobias for the Turkeys, Louis or Louie for the long guns? And doesn't everyone who has heard of tom-tom know that it doesn't TOM at all, but wum-wum-wums? TIME is too kindly, too wise, not sufficiently Jimmy Wal-kerish, to head this TOMfoolery. Give TOM a break, along with Richard and Henry...
...general bituminous strike, a strike that is not settled yet. Through successive months of hope, doggedness, anger, misery, squalor, International President John L. Lewis exhorted the United Mine Workers to take "no backward step" from their demands for continuance of Jacksonville rates. Many an operator went bankrupt. Many a head was broken in fights between union pickets and company "scabs" or police. The strong companies remanned their mines with non-union...
...Polish Government to appraise a shipment of onetime Tsarist diamonds sent for sale in Poland by the Soviet Government. Perhaps it was that service which secured for M. Rubenstein a private cell and communication with his lawyer, although the Polish prosecutor will endeavor to show that he is the head of an international ring of diamond smugglers. Reports that none of the swallowers were suffering more than a minor gripe, caused physicians to recall that sizable nuts & bolts, small spoons and open safety pins are not infrequently swallowed without fatality...
...sought to ease up still further on credit in the U. S., with the sound idea that higher interest rates abroad would attract much-needed funds. It ordered the Chicago bank to reduce its rediscount rate from 4 to 3½%. Chicago bankers, led by famed Melvin Alvah Traylor, head of the powerful First National Bank, dissented sharply, voiced grave warnings. Unheeding, the Federal Reserve forced its way, helped Europe weather its crisis...
...Kansas University he played the leads for the dramatic society, published the football programs, was head of the Y. M. C. A. and did all the many other things that make for importance at college. When the U. S. entered the War he was commissioned from Washington as a lieutenant of aviation and attached to the Royal Flying Corps in Canada. After the Armistice, mustered out as a captain of aviation he went to Racine as sales promotion manager of the J. I. Case Plow Works Co. When, five years later, he left Racine to take his present position...