Word: mille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal Days. "Mound Bayou counts among its business, professional and industrial enterprises, two gins, three blacksmith shops, one garage, one tailor, two restaurants, five service stations, two contractors, two doctors, one dentist, one lawyer, one grist mill, one saw mill, two undertakers.† twelve groceries, and meat markets, one drugstore, one 5? & 10? store, one billiard parlor, one barber shop, one gun & locksmith and one newspaper. . . . Our municipal government is stable. Its wisdom is attested by the fact that many needed improvements have been foregone to prevent its citizens from being burdened with debts. The outstanding obligations of the municipality...
...County and Municipal Workers of America, hoped for 2,000,000 members, declared that strikes and picketing would not be included in the organization's policy. And last week John Lewis was taking more than official pleasure in preparing to welcome into C.I.O. the 100,000 lumberjacks and mill hands in the Federation of Wood-workers, hitherto a unit of A. F. of L.'s Carpenters & Joiners, headed by William ("Big Bill") Hutcheson. A stanch Republican, Big Bill Hutcheson was the man John Lewis knocked down in a fist fight at the 1935 A. F. of L. convention...
...midnight shift was preparing to enter the Republic Steel plant in Massillon, Ohio one night last week, two cars driven by C. I. O. sympathizers collided, blocking the entrance to the long viaduct leading to the mill. Ohio's Governor Davey, having withdrawn his troops from Massillon, the gate was patrolled by some 30 deputized special guards. Knocking in the windows of the cars the guards dragged out the drivers, while a crowd of pickets surged up to defend them. In the ensuing two-hour battle the nearby union headquarters was nearly wrecked, a baker's dozen...
...while a Franciscan priest, posed by St. Nicholas' pastor, kneels to invoke God's blessing on their church. For the side altars Vanka painted a Crucifixion and Pieta in cold blues and black, with green lightning. His model for the figure of Christ was a strapping Negro mill worker. It was well toward the end of May before the final murals complementing these on the back walls took shape and made the women on their way out after mass stop and weep and burn candles...
About ten years ago the city of Syracuse, N. Y. became highly conscious of a lively young man named La Verne Moore. Son of a churchgoing steel mill worker named Matthew Moore, whose other offspring were two beautiful daughters and a son who lived up to his name of Harold, La Verne was nicknamed "Bull" because of his phenomenal physique, his excellence at games, his unruly disposition...