Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Temple, to find out how many students read the petitions they sign, someone circulated a petition for an extra holiday, ending: "We are resolved to spend the day in merrymaking and leisure, at which time each one will decapitate himself with extreme joy." Five hundred students dumbly signed...
Finally the Chancellor of the Exchequer, fit and smiling after a salmon fishing holiday in Scotland (see cut), entered the House to deliver the speech for which all were breathlessly waiting. Because he was bringing the best news Britain has heard since 1931, Neville Chamberlain blew himself to a new brief case of gleaming yellow pigskin to carry the precious budget of 1934. By tradition Britain's budget is always supposed to be contained in a red morocco box on the Speaker's table. Chancellor Chamberlain slipped his few typewritten pages from brief case to the budget...
...power house to find out when the lights would go on again, or shutting down the factory for the night, Carl fretted and fumed, let discontent and darkness bring to a head what might have become a riot. When the men came back to work after the holiday Carl had fired a crowd of the best workers, among them Hagen. A strike followed, feeling grew uglier day by day. Finally the police shot a scab by mistake, thinking he was a picketer. One of the strikers' leaders was arrested for the crime. When Carl and his higher-ups decided...
...Nutt-Van Sweringen transactions were first discovered last year after Union Trust Co., which failed to reopen after the bank holiday, was taken over by liquidators. The State Senate had spent most of the summer raking over the muck left by Union's failure and the failure of another large Cleveland bank, Guardian Trust Co. But Cleveland businessmen raised their eyebrows skeptically over the rash of bank indictments that followed, including one against Guardian Trust's homely, church-loving President James Arthur House. They were ready to listen ast week to the explanations of Messrs. Mutt...
Despite the pre-game announcement that Coach Mitchell had replaced Woodruff by Mike Hovenanian for the Princeton game on the holiday, Woody was sent in and succeeded in collecting two hits out of four trips to the plate. Official releases say that Mitchell still intends to use Mike today but in view of Woodruff's work at bat, he may change his mind and keep the original lineup intact...