Word: lulls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Meanwhile at Houston the Brotherhood had on file in the U. S. court a petition that Henry Morris Lull, executive vice president of the road, George Stewart Waid, general manager, and John Givens Torain, assistant to Mr. Waid, had violated the provisions of the injunction and therefore should be sent to jail until they purged themselves of contempt. The Brotherhood alleged these S. P. officials had failed to dissolve the company union and to cease interference with brotherhood affairs, as Judge Hutcheson had ordered. Filed last February, this petition, by joint agreement, was held in abeyance until the Supreme Court...
...fought with stock proxies in Delaware. At Wilmington, representatives of United Aircraft & Transport Corp. tried and failed to wrest ownership of National Air Transport Inc. from the Curtiss-Keys interests. But where the Ohio battle ended conclusively, the Delaware affair was but a prelude to battle, the result a lull in hostilities but not in hostility...
...peak. In the next two acts rebellion occurs. While machine guns clatter and sirens whine outside, the most desperate of the rebels threatens to shoot hostages in cold blood if means of escape are not granted. They are not, and he kills an assistant warder, and a turnkey. A lull comes at nightfall while a searchlight sweeps the grated windows; there are three rebels left and only two bullets. Hope has long since gone. Even the shooting of the warden had been an act not so much of hope as of protest against a life in which such a steely...
After a three weeks lull in its schedule the University hockey team will resume activities tonight when the Golden Tornado of Marquette University sweeps down on the ice at the Boston Garden to furnish the opposition. The face-off is carded for 8.30 o'clock...