Word: knock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most important trade code up for a NRA hearing last week was Steel's. Its provision for company unions as a means of collective bargaining between companies and their workers threatened a major deadlock. NRA looked forward fearfully to a knock-down-&-drag-out fight. General Johnson had bluntly hinted to steelmen that they could not qualify the law by such labor clauses. When the hearing opened President Robert Patterson Lament of the Iron & Steel Institute (since leaving Washington as President Hoover's Secretary of Commerce) announced amid great applause that the industry had agreed to knock...
...close to the stockyards was a private elevator and the report that the huge castle was burglarproof. The doors had no outside locks, no knobs. The only way to get in was to be admitted from the inside. And Mrs. Potter Palmer saw to it that more than a knock was necessary for that...
...holding company, gave the House of Morgan large influence in the power field but by no means control. Partner Whitney: "It has not always been J. P. Morgan & Co.'s policies that have been adopted by a long shot. I don't mean that there was a knock-down and drag-out fight but we often defer to the operating heads in matters of policy...
...later the reporter called at the Inn, chatted with the proprietor, suggested to him that his feeble old guest was Harriman. To see for himself, the proprietor went upstairs, found "Mr. Thomas" in bed, and got nothing but denials from the old gentleman. While they were talking, a loud knock announced the arrival of Inspector King of the Nassau County police, summoned thither by the reporter. "Aren't you Mr. Harriman?" he demanded abruptly. "No, I am Mr. Thomas," was the reply. But lying on the window sill was a hat bearing the initials...
...autographs. Hugo Zacchini, the human cannonball, greeted them. Gene Tunney came over to say hello. Max Schmeling invited them to his training camp at Oak Ridge, N. J. Babe Ruth, who sent each boy a telegram, will have them up to the Yankee Stadium soon, promises to try and knock a home-run in their honor...