Word: hooded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which $28,000,000 was to be raised immediately, the rest at some indefinite future date. The purpose of the issue was to retire at a cost of $22,000,000 all of Goodrich's 67? bonds and all of the 5½% and 7% notes of Hood Rubber Co., a Watertown, Mass, subsidiary which manufactures Goodrich footwear as well as products under its own name. All this seemed commonplace enough to Goodrich shareholders. But to Cyrus Stephen Eaton, once-famed Cleveland banker and power tycoon, it became high treason the moment President Tew, in selecting the list...
...Eugene Debs, the resurgent Socialist Party, many a liberal advanced the belief that General Otis had himself destroyed his plant. The General, who had mounted a small cannon on the hood of his automobile, impatiently waited for Detective William J. Burns to find the bombers. Sleuth Burns found the Brothers John J. and James B. McNamara, Iron Workers Union dynamiters, kidnapped them from Indianapolis and Detroit to Los Angeles. The trial in 1911 caused such serious nationwide friction on the labor-capital front that many a cool head feared a workers' revolution. Then, at the last moment, the Brothers...
...carloads of cinders. High-school teachers lectured their pupils about it. Gas and insurance companies enclosed its circulars with their bills. Shops dressed their windows with pictures of correct attire for the occasion. Radio stations ballyhooed it. All this massed effort was to make a success of the Robin Hood Dell concerts of the Philadelphia Orchestra, which last summer ceased abruptly two weeks ahead of time, leaving a $20,000 deficit...
When, on opening night, 7,000 people filled the seats in Robin Hood Dell, gloomy Philadelphians were honestly surprised, cheered themselves hoarse at the end. Conductor was Jose Iturbi who hurried down from Manhattan, played a Beethoven-Wagner program which the musicians had chosen...
...make Bob Hutchins one of the ablest and most popular public speakers in the land. In University of Chicago's majestic cathedral-chapel last week he summed up for all liberal educators their case against the patrioteers. His rangy, athletic figure draped in silken gown and the purple hood of a Doctor of Laws, he leaned out from the pulpit to declare...