Word: hitch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they do well. Practice is thus backed by interest. Naturally student activities will not be graduate activities, but by a method of interest analysis outlined in our 1931 report we show men how to relate past interests to possible future interests. This we believe will, in most cases, actually hitch their abilities to an occupation appropriate to them. But in any case enthusiasm will often overcome the absence of ideal abilities." Augustus L. Putnam...
...handed over to the jurisdiction of A. F. of L. teamsters', engineers' and firemen's unions. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers, a strong independent organization with 130,000 members, was ready to add its numbers to the A. F. of L. But there was a hitch. A. F. of L.'s United Garment Workers demanded that Amalgamated unionists stitch no men's clothes. U. G. W.'s province...
...questions: How much guarantee money could be raised (he wanted $100,000)? How much admission should be charged? Last week, with both questions answered, Mr. Johnson made public his ideas for the Chicago Grand Opera Company. He had a conductor, prices, preliminary plans. There was only one possible hitch: would San Carlo, whose Auditorium contract lasts as long as weekly receipts run above a "certain figure" (not divulged), be ready to leave by Nov. 20 when Mr. Johnson hoped to move in? Mr. Johnson would have his Grand Opera run for ten weeks. On the dais will be a slim...
...floor and the new- for Stock Clearing Corp., a subsidiary which handles much of the mechanical detail.- Telephone men working 24 hours a day gouged up Newark's Commerce Street to lay a 3,600-wire cable. Carpenters and electricians rushed preparations for the opening Oct. 2. A hitch developed when Centre Market's present tenants, in default of $300,000 rent, obtained an injunction against dispossession. Asked if he would hold Newark to its promise. Founder Froelick snapped, "Hell, no! Alarmed by this attitude, Mayor Ellenstein flew home from Chicago, soon settled the squabble...
...Francisco reporters, John Wade Gordon, 21, said that he was hitchhiking on a California highway, got picked up by a shiny automobile whizzing by. Occupant of the automobile was Herbert Clark Hoover, who speedily learned that Hitch-hiker Gordon, a jobless mechanic, was a relative of onetime Governor Earl Brewer of Mississippi. Said Hitch-hiker Gordon: "He bought me a meal when we got to the Sausalito Ferry, and then he said: 'Well, son, I'm going to take a chance on you. You have an honest face. I'll give you a little money...