Word: lockeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Whitney forbade the 975 delegates to talk out of meeting, could & would oust any who disobeyed. The few who might have been inclined to do so remembered what happened to two uppity brothers in 1935: Brother Whitney, who is one of Cleveland's leading citizens, had police lock up the pair for the duration of the convention...
...Dunellen, N. J., homesick Carl Schurr, a German iceman, traded his $1,300 house & lot for one in Stuttgart, Germany, recently vacated by Jewish Refugee Rudolph Stoessell. As Herr Schurr auctioned off his ice business lock, stock and tongs, Refugee Stoessell, already well housed in midtown Manhattan, put his new Dunellen estate up for rent...
Herr Hitler who has his press and polls under Nazi lock & key, made the error, so far as his U. S. audience was concerned, of caricaturing the free press of the U. S. and calling it a liar. The U. S. press and people, if they credited Herr Hitler with some hits, seemed still to believe that Mr. Roosevelt's search for world peace with relative justice was a search more honest than Hitler's reply; and that, although the U. S. may not have a perfect moral record in history, the only hope for men of good...
...bargain price, was all set to abandon it this year when Shibaura Engineering Co., Japan's largest electrical manufacturer, decided to build a rolling mill machinery subsidiary. Hard-headed George Ladd promptly sold them the Wooster mill and last week he announced that it was being shipped, lock, stock & barrel from Wooster to Yokohama, Japan where it will be operated by Shibaura-United, capitalized at 16,000,000 yen ($4,000,000) and 49% owned by United...
...After two warnings, masked night riders drag them out of bed, force them to destroy their own plant beds. If they still play ball with the Trust, their barns are burned. When the Trust strikes back, 2,000 armed growers march into Bardsville, seize the telephone and telegraph offices, lock up police and firemen, burn the brand-new million-dollar Trust warehouses...