Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mill, broke a woman's leg. At Greenville, S. C. one man and four women were clubbed, kicked and mauled in scrimmages with deputies. At Fall River, Mass., Radical Ann Burlak. "The Red Flame,'' was forbidden to hold a meeting. In New Bedford, Mass. 3,000 pickets attacked the main gate of the Firestone Tire Fabric plant, showered windows with stones, forced 600 workers to retreat into the mill for safety. At Trion, Ga. a deputy sheriff and a non-union man were killed in a battle between strikers and deputies...
Striding down the Fair's main street, he passed the empty buildings of Germany and Jugoslavia. Both countries at the last minute decided to send no exhibits. A little farther on he stopped at the French building, to grin and shake hands with the exhibit's director. Edouard Soulier, vice president of the Chamber of Deputies' Foreign Affairs Committee...
East's main problem, after Thomas Hitchcock (who has had his 10-goal handicap for 13 years) was injured in the second trial match last month, was to pick from an overabundance of able young players the four who function best together. Younger, lighter, with an aggregate handicap of 30 goals to the West's 36, East last week had only one seasoned Internationalist: Winston Guest, who had returned from a honeymoon withhis Woolworth heiress bride, Helena McCann Guest, just in time for the trial matches. Of his three teammates only one played in the East-West series...
...revere Tezcatlipoca, the Toltec divinity who was the patron of college students, with side glances of horror possibly at Huitzilopochtli, the war god . . . is probably one of the most amazing if not amusing spectacles ever presented to American college life. . . But all this is a thing apart from the main satire in which Quetzalcoatl's divine attributes by contrast are used to bolster up a crude pictorial misrepresentation of academic education in America as 'a sterile ritual of dead things giving birth to dead things...
Died. Jo Mendi, II, most popular chimpanzee in the U. S.; of trench mouth; in Detroit. He was the main attraction in Jo Mendi's Little Chimpanzee Theatre in which, a dozen times a day, he and six younger chimps imitated human beings by riding bicycles, drinking tea, roller skating. NRA cut the number of Jo Mendi's daily performances to two. Last year he earned...