Word: marsh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...person than the British Commander in Chief of the Middle East, General Sir Claude John Eyre ("The Auk") Auchinleck. The Auk decided to plug Rommel at the neck of a funnel-the 35-mile gap between El Alamein on the coast and the northern tongue of the steep-sided, marsh-bedded Qattara Depression.* El Alamein is 70 miles from Alexandria...
Fortunately or unfortunately, as the case may be, the history of the Peabody dates back to an idea conceived by a Yale man. In 1856 Professor Othniel C. Marsh, impressed by his discoveries in an insignificant, little shell-heap in Newark, New Jersey, wrote to his uncle, George Peabody of London, that he felt it might be a good idea if a museum of American archacology and rthnology were established in this country. Peabody, having already intended to give something to Harvard, gathered in the suggestion with open arms, the result being that on October 16, 1866, a deed...
...March 31 nearly 300 workers in one of the workers in one of the world's largest department stores went on strike: The store was Jordan Marsh. The workers were fighting over whether the A.F.L. or an independent, company-dominated union should represent the truck drivers and warehouse men. For more than two weeks Jordan Marsh tried to break the strike by storing their goods in Columbia Record Company warehouses, distributing them in trucks owned by the Kaplan Company of Lowell and using the polite "services" of many other wholesalers who value the department store's powerful friendship. The issue...
This strike could have affected thousands of families around Greater Boston, yet not a word about it was printed in the Boston, Press. The metropolitan papers studiously kept all news of the dispute out of their columns in deference to the fat advertising contracts which Jordan Marsh annually gives them. They shifted control of their columns from the managing editor to the boys who sell...
...Rugby team, featuring president Marsh Hollet and several former star athletes such as all-American football player Frank Swirler, and hurdler, Captain Dick Simpson, meets Long Island University. The ruggers, who lost to Princeton, must win their next two games to stay in the running for the championship of the Eastern Rugby League, which they have held for the last three years...