Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long ago as 1908, western waterfront employers began to combat incipient labor organizations through local and coastwise associations. Now, in every western port save Tacoma, Wash., and three lesser ports on Puget Sound, four regional associations and the master Shipowners' Association of the Pacific Coast, represent all but a few small companies in continual bickers & dickers with Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union...
...headmaster's wife, tried to run away, been put in coventry, acted as coxswain of the crew and finally been offered a job on the Queen Mary that his appreciation of Russell-Cotes's advantages becomes complete. By this time, in addition to the familiar sight of Master Freddie keeping a stiff upper lip without letting it interfere with the clipped precision of his diction, audiences will have been treated to a presumably authentic glimpse of how England cares for its underprivileged youth. Most exciting shot: little Lord Jeff falling from the yardarm of a facsimile mast into...
...University he became a pupil of Masaryk, drank in his ideas for a Czech state. Later, as professor of sociology, he continued his master's teachings through a secret nationalist society. Soon after the outbreak of the War, his underground activities were discovered, and he fled to join Masaryk in Switzerland. There pupil and master drafted their sales-talks to the Allies...
...Hare McCormick four months ago: "The destiny of Europe will be decided here. This country is a natural and necessary point for European equilibrium. If this position is given up all of Central Europe is gone." Bismarck put the same thing more succinctly years before. "Whoever is master of Bohemia is master of Europe," said the Iron Chancellor...
...Rockefeller, 26, fourth son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., was initiated last week into the Circus Saints & Sinners Club, (which is devoted to the care of retired circus performers), forced to wear costumes depicting the life of a Rockefeller from babyhood to old age. Announcer Tex O'Rourke, master of ceremonies, supplied a running commentary: "He worked hard and long in the Texas oilfields until, at the end of one week, he rose to vice president. After attaining this position, he took a year's vacation...