Word: iced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which included in its cast outstanding personalities of the radio, screen and sports world, was arranged by a large committee under the direction of John F. Kennedy '40. This was greeted by an often enthusiastic audience which smoked and consumed the traditional corncob pipes, cigarettes, ginger ale, doughnuts, and ice cream. Kennedy also acted as master of ceremonies...
...every side. A would-be good Samaritan, Elmo Botkin, rushed in bearing a first aid kit, was promptly felled by a picket with a baseball bat, received an apology when he came to, was hospitalized. A short distance from the heart of the strife a peddler placidly sold ice cream bricks to the combatants. One striker went into combat eating ice cream with his left hand, swinging a club with his right. The riot lasted for an hour and a half. Finally a union leader rushed to a sound truck, and proposed a truce: the canneries would stay closed...
...only six months prior, had dismissed her because she was trying to unionize the employes, Mrs. Rhatigan began an organization campaign which culminated in March when 200 cooks, dishwashers, laundresses, electricians, slop women and orderlies put on a sit-down strike in the hospital's kitchens, pantries and ice plant. Babies cried because their wet diapers were not changed. Doctors and nurses were obliged to go to public restaurants for their meals. After eight hours, police broke up the strike by throwing the help in jail following a stiff scrimmage...
Over Lake Superior last week blew a strong northwest wind. At Duluth it loosened ice floes at the harbor mouth, and the freighter John Gehm, first vessel to clear since last December, steamed out with 2,500 tons of scrap. At the east end of the lake, tugs had cut a channel from Sault Ste. Marie to open water. The wind from the west closed this, packed miles & miles of ice into Whitefish Bay. Clamped fast in the glittering rubble, more than 50 high-riding ore boats westbound from the Soo Canal stayed strung out there for two days, like...
Most versatile were a pair of Freshman hockey goal tenders, Vinton Freedley, Jr., and James A. Rousmaniere, who found enough time when they weren't on the ice to act as regular members of the 1940 squash team