Word: lay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department of Labor's crack Conciliator James F. Dewey shuttled back & forth between G. M. and U. A. W. headquarters, trying vainly to bring Generals Knudsen and Martin together at a conference table. Each side conceded one point at issue, stood firm on another. General Martin offered to lay aside, until a conference should begin, his demand that U. A. W. be recognized as sole bargaining agency for G. M. workers. General Knudsen backed down on his earlier insistence that all G. M. bargaining must be by individual plants, offered to treat with the Union nationally on matters...
...Eleanor Moller, 22, was about to bear her third child, in a kitchen, alone. Police Doctor Cassius De Victoria was soon en route in another police radio car, but Mrs. Moller could not wait. Patrolman Butler edged his car up to the window of the kitchen where she lay, turned up the radio to full blast, so Dr. De Victoria could tell him what to do. In a few minutes John Joseph Butler Moller was successfully born...
Died. Mrs. Isobel Carothers Berolzheimer, 36, "Lu" of the radio trio "Clara, Lu 'n Em," wife of Professor Howard Berolzheimer of the Northwestern University School of Speech; of pneumonia; in Evanston, Ill. Ill with influenza in Evanston lay "Em," Mrs. John Mayo Mitchell. On the air nearly six years, their gossipy act was conceived when the three were Zeta Phi Eta sisters at Northwestern...
Died. Alfred Bessette (Brother André), 91, Catholic lay brother and "miracle man," founder of Montreal's St. Joseph's Oratory and the New Basilica; after a paralytic stroke; in Montreal...
...spite of the world's highest death rate, 34,000,000 in the last decade), five or six million beggars, 24½ million "entirely superfluous cattle, costing ?132,000,000 annually-a staggering sum ... to pay for their veneration of cows." In spite of such temptations to lay down the white man's law, Yeats-Brown says: "I have no intention of teaching the grandmother of our civilization how to suck the eggs of democracy." Nor does India's caste system stick in his craw. He cites it as a method of spreading employment...