Word: marche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stockyard company's Vice President William J. O'Connor and General Manager Orvis T. Henkle. Negro Henry Johnson, assistant director of C. I. O.'s Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee, said the union had been in hot water with Messrs. O'Connor and Henkle since last March, what with cops roughing up negotiating committees, thugs beating up officers and shooting up headquarters. Manager Henkle said his company had been in business 65 years and proposed to continue without benefit of the closed shop and checkoff. The union thereupon gave Mr. Prince's representatives a choice...
...itself hardly an event of universal importance. At the same time, if viewed in the light of corollary events, the purge takes on added significance. It may indicate that little Rumania has decided definitely to oppose--and, with the help of Britain, effectively to oppose--the eastward march of the rumbling Fascist juggernaut...
...placed tipsters, Editor Williams made quite a local name for himself as a prognosticator in world politics. His major prediction was that Germany would precipitate a world war in the spring or summer of 1938 over the Czechoslovakia!! issue. A second prediction, the blunt assertion that "Germany will not march." appeared late in September when the Czechoslovakian crisis looked its blackest...
...first year under the Katz management Gruen made $606,000. Last year (ending March 31, 1938) net profit was $726,000. Having retired all the com pany's debentures with these profits, be sides $150,000 worth of Class A preferred stock, Ben Katz last week decided to pay off Gruen's remaining $839,000 of Class A and B preferred by issuing new common stock. With a 1938 sales record that equals last year's, and with the market in the mood for new financing, he hopes to sell 150,000 shares at a price that...
Military writing bulks large in U. S. literature. There is excellent reading in Admiral Mahan, in Grant (although his sentences sometimes march like exhausted infantry), in Sherman. But since the World War, military men have generally confined their writing to official journals, with only Captain Liddell Hart winning both a popular following and the respect of experts. Now wars are again making military commentaries popular. Last week Liddell Hart published Through the Fog of War, contributing little new material, but .including a moving epilogue as fine as anything he has written. People who talk of preventing war are already...