Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miners' hovels at nearby Scots' Run. Once the property of Col. John Fairfax of Virginia, whose friend George Washington surveyed part of it, Reedsville was purchased by the Government last year from Farmer Richard M. Arthur. In its 50 white model cottages of the ready-made knock-down type are electric lights, modern plumbing, coal stoves, fireplaces, furnaces, double-decker beds and (by special request) bathtubs...
...Connell) was a weakly child-"a Sagittarius baby," he recalls-who only survived his school days by his gift for adroit ducking. This talent he uses to good effect one evening when tipsy Speed, world's middleweight champion, and his trainer simultaneously swing on him, miss and knock each other out. Misinformed, newspaper headlines next day scream that unknown Burleigh 'Sullivan has thrashed the champion. To save Speed's reputation, Burleigh is persuaded by Speed's manager to abandon his beloved milk route, become a fighter himself so that Speed may eventually demolish him in public...
...VOICE-James Rorty- Day ($3). Advertising, defined variously as an art, a racket, a Midas, a parasite, is one of the twelve greatest U. S. industries. In 1929 it did a two-billion dollar business. Like most other U. S. industries, advertising since 1929 has had many a hard knock. Your Money's Worth (TIME, July 25, 1927), by Stuart Chase & F. J. Schlink, and 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs (1933), by F. J. Schlink and Arthur Kallet, lifted the lid on some cynical advertising secrets. Last week, amid cries of "Foul!" from its partisans, advertising took a shrewd...
...Philippine independence-less to give the little brown men freedom than to keep their sugar from coming in duty free. A few weeks ago the Philippines were given their second offer of freedom. But still all was not well. Some of the President's advisers wanted to knock down the tariff barriers, thereby administering a death blow to the beet industry as too inefficient and costly a luxury to maintain at the expense of the country at large. At this suggestion, a howl of anger went up from the representatives of beet sugar states...
...stories, and struck at the wrong target. If airmail carriers had played a crooked game with President Hoover's Postmaster General Brown, they had only followed rules laid down by him as the umpire. It seemed fair enough to change the game's rules, not fair to knock out the obedient players. The wage of connivance, retorted the Administration, is punishment. By last week the rules of the game as it is to be played under President Roosevelt's Postmaster General Farley were not finally settled, but temporary rules were ready and an hour was at hand...