Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour-a far longer time than any White House visitor is likely to remain unless the President is eager to talk to him. Only twelve days previous in sonorous phrases unmistakably intended for the ears of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the leonine Mr. Lewis told the nation: "It ill behooves one who has supped at Labor's table and who has been sheltered in Labor's house to curse with equal fervor and fine impartiality both Labor and its adversaries when they become locked in deadly embrace." Since during the steel strike the President had called down a "plague...
...other thing will be found, too, which cannot be got at any odd institution that calls itself a college just because it has a coach and a cheer and a grandstand. That is that at Harvard the game is designed for the enjoyment of the players. Whatever ill winds may be blown around from time to time, to the contrary, it is nevertheless true that the amateur spirit hovers over Soldiers Field. So it is gratifying that more men than before are turning out in the Freshman class...
...convention at Springfield, Ill. last week assembled the National Federation of Federal Employes, an independent union competing with A. F. of L. and C. I. O. for the nation's 800,000 Government employes. To the N. F. F. E. delegates President Roosevelt dispatched a message, conceding the place of Government unions in the U. S. Labor picture but sternly warning: "Militant tactics have no place in the function of an organization of Government employes. . . . Such action looking forward to the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it is unthinkable and intolerable...
...m.p.h. This was seven miles slower than Michel Detroyat's world record winning time last year, but fast enough to take the $9,000 first-prize money. A wiry garage mechanic and veteran racer who designs his own planes, 29-year-old Rudy Kling lives in Lemont, Ill., had already walked off with the $4,500 first prize in the Greve Trophy race. Grinned he: "I just gunned her for all she could...
ZEPPELIN-Captain Ernst A. Lehmann-Longmans, Green ($3). History of lighter-than-air craft by the commander of the ill-fated Hindenburg. Foreword and final chapter by Commander Charles E. Rosendahl describe the disaster. Well illustrated...