Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he was being short-weighted, got into a quarrel about it, knocked the weighmaster down, was fired. His fellows retaliated by organizing a union, electing young Murray president, threatening a strike. Up, up, up the Labor ladder he climbed until at 34 the boy from Lanarkshire became a master of debate who knew more about the coal industry than most operators, was vice president of United Mine Workers, biggest union in the land. When U.M.W.'s President John L. Lewis prepared to risk the future of his C.I.O. last summer in a great drive to organize Steel...
...Procurer!" screamed Der Angriff, personal organ of Dr. Paul Goebbels, Minister for Propaganda & Public Enlightenment for Germany's 66,000,000 people. "Jewish lout . . . inciter . . . chief master of gangsters [who] having bribed him . . . have become still more insolent in murdering, looting and in kidnapping children. ... A Jewish ruffian . . . [who indulged in] an orgy of insult before a thousand Jewish women whom he fetched in from the streets...
...famed, crusty Frederick Scheetz Jones in 1927 and has since done a notable job in modernizing Yale's course requirements and in adjusting New Haven life to Repeal, explained that he wanted to get back to his other Yale work as Dunham Professor of Latin Language & Literature and master of Branford College. An Oxford-trained classicist of the old school, Professor Mendell is noted for his knowledge of Tacitus, his ability to translate the Epistles of Horace in the style of Ring Lardner, the age of his pipes, his soft-soled shoes, his unfailing politeness with miscreants. Neither retiring...
...champion's son and when his turn came he, too, won the top U. S. bird dog championship, the National Field Trials on the Hobart Ames plantation at Grand Junction, Tenn. One autumn when he had grown old and too slow for quail, the little setter's master took him away from his familiar brush and stubble to the thick pines of Minnesota to hunt grouse. Out of his master's sight one grey afternoon, he was standing on point when a blinding blizzard struck suddenly out of the north, driving the master to cover. Wind, sleet...
...also the first disaster to happen to a College Head since several years ago when elderly President Lowell was bowled over in the yard by a speedy cyclist who closely resembled Julian L. Coolidge '95, Professor of Mathematics and Master of Lowell House...