Word: machinistic
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...Russia Perfect Gentleman Robert Robinson is famed because of the Communist propaganda trial put on in his honor in 1930 at Stalingrad where he was working as a machinist. Two white U. S. machinists objected violently to being lumped with a "nigger" at meals. They were solemnly tried, convicted of "race prejudice," and one was banished from the Soviet Union...
...Drew '37, J. L. Calvocorressl '38, I. A. Buffum '37, H. Lloyd '37, J. N. Rodeheaver 2G, L. T. Conant '35, G. H. Reed '88, G. H. Wolfson '37, T. T. Dorman '38, D. P. MacAllester '38, R. D. Proctor '38, M. H. Illingworth '38, M. Machinist '37, D. Macdonald...
...wanted the money delivered. The ladder by which he climbed to the Lindbergh nursery was of careful, home-made construction, and a New York City toxicologist, examining ransom money as it came in, found emery dust and glycerine esters. Hence the man was likely to be a carpenter or machinist who ground his own tools. Judging from the ladder's broken rung, the man's weight was put at somewhere near 160 lb. From vague descriptions given by a taxi-driver who had taken the third ransom note to "Jafsie" Condon and from Condon's own recollections...
...means by which they may die in the next war." Columnist Thomas had received the text from one Alan Clark, active member of the Socialist Party in Berkeley, Calif. It came typewritten on a plain piece of paper headed: "Facsimile of an advertisement appearing in the American Machinist...
What Columnist Lore, Editor Watson, Columnist Thomas and Socialist Clark did not know, or deliberately failed to mention, was that the explosive shell advertisement had appeared in American Machinist just once-on May 6, 1915. Its publication then caused a great popular outcry which aroused the U. S. State Department and caused Secretary of Commerce Redfield to deal a stinging rebuke to American Machinist. Few months ago it was reprinted, in its true historical seating, in the book Merchants of Death by Engelbrecht & Hanighen (TIME...