Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's other important strike involved recognition of United Mine Workers by the "captive" soft coal mines of Pennsylvania. These mines are owned and their entire output is used by the great non-union iron and steel companies. Last fortnight U. M. W. won complete recognition from most commercial mine operators in a blanket wage contract under the coal code. Because that contract did not include the "captive" mines of U. S. Steel Corp., Bethlehem Steel and others, some 75,000 Pennsylvania diggers under Insurgent Martin Ryan refused to work in any sort of mine...
...Neill, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, : Emil Ludwig, Robinson Jeffers, Ben ; Hecht, Hendrik Van Loon. Died. Michael Joseph ("Turkey Mike") Donlin, 57, actor, oldtime baseballer; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. He was the strutting, clowning, umpire-baiting captain of the New York Giants team which, with Christy Mathewson, "Iron Man Joe" McGinnity and Roger Bresnahan shut out Philadelphia four times in the 1905 World Series...
...clung closer into its corner, and a multitude of locusts appeared, and their heads were like crowns of gold, their faces as the faces of men, their hair as the hair of women, their teeth as the teeth of lions; and they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron, and tails like unto scorpions; and their power was to hurt men. "I know you," the figure shrieked hysterically, "you're the Bible and Shakespeare examinations!" There came a mighty flash, and all was emptiness...
...implications. But more interesting, perhaps, than the fate of any one jurist is the whole problem of the redefinition of constitutionality which will face the ten old men in October. Balancing the Crawford case and the judicial act will be a mere breather beside the dexterity needed to iron out the NRA and the decision in Hammer vs. Dagenhart, which forbids the use of the interstate commerce power as a penalty on antecedent conditions of manufacturers, admittedly the trump around which the whole act is built...
...fundamental difference is iron in blood, magnesium in chlorophyll. For his chlorophyll investigations Professor Willstätter received the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry...