Word: kick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leader has been a union card that he holds in the Coshocton (Ohio) local of John Lewis' United Mine Workers. After splitting with C. I. O. the A. F. of L. started to play ball with a rival union, Progressive Miners of America, and John Lewis threatened to kick Miner Green out of the United Mine Workers for "treason." Since Mr. Green's home town local, whose financial secretary is Mr. Green's brother, would probably stand by him, Mr. Lewis proposed to try him before the International's executive board, later before the full Mine...
...Parliament: "I cannot say with assurance that their ranks are free ... of such men whom the Russian proverb describes as 'neither God's candle, nor Devil's broom.'. . . Our Constitution foresees the possibility of that situation-a deputy who has begun to kick. . . . The Government must organize new elections in a case like that. . . . If they have gone astray, get rid of them!" Russian wise-acres estimated that it would take about 24 hours for Mr. Stalin to "organize" the recall of any deputy who kicked...
...hunch that the X-particle was originally an ordinary electron whose mass had somehow been increased. He imagined what would happen if a high-energy cosmic ray photon struck an electron in the upper atmosphere. Most of the transferred energy would simply give the electron a high-velocity kick. But some of it might be converted into matter which the electron would absorb, increasing its mass. The increase might be any amount at all, depending on the initial energy of the cosmic ray and the variable quantity of matter produced. Dr. Jauncey sent off a letter on these speculations...
...arms French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos on the last leg of his 17-day jaunt to Poland, Rumania, Yugoslavia (TIME, Dec. 13 et seq.), undertaken to strengthen French friendship with her mid-European allies. While bound for Prague, the French diplomat, ardent League of Nations supporter, received a neat kick in the pants from the crafty Yugoslav Premier, paunchy Milan Stoyadinovich, whom he had just visited for three days. Although Yugoslav officials had issued a carefully worded communique during the Delbos visit admitting in lukewarm terms that Yugoslavia is still a member of the League, almost before the Delbos train...
Disney, Inc. "It was always my ambition to own a swell camera," says Walt Disney, "and now, godammit, I got one. I get a kick just watching the boys operate it, and remembering how I used to have to make 'em out of baling wire." The baling wire period in Walt Disney's life lasted from 1901 to 1930. In 1901 Walt was born in Chicago. His father, Elias, was a contractor, who now lives quietly with Walt's mother in Oregon and hears from his famous son about twice a year. The family moved...