Word: minns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they were getting out of their leaders' hands (see p. 20). In Wilmington, Del., a short-lived general strike called in support of striking truck drivers sent flying squads of unionists roving the city's streets, tossing bricks through windows of trolleys, busses, stores. In Albert Lea, Minn., retaliating for the smashing of picket lines and a tear-gas attack on their union headquarters, strikers attacked a gas machine plant where 150 deputy sheriffs were encamped. They overturned automobiles, set fire to one police car and dumped another into the river, did $15,000 damage to the plant...
Model T In Center City, Minn., went up for auction a virgin 1917 Model T Ford which its late owner Oscar Peterson had driver only 5 9/10 miles, had bought only to avoid further "pestering" from automobile salesmen...
...Saint Cloud, Minn., after two horses had exhausted themselves dragging the 2,500-ton granite postoffice to its new location, Supervisor E. W. LaPlante recruited a dozen brawny girls to haul it the last block. "The idea is," said he, "to prove that the task is not a matter of strength, but rather the mastery of power...
...time-I surely hope not for there would then be two days a week to endure the suspense which I only have to experience one day now! Let the management of both TIME and LIFE consider the many other readers in my predicament! MAUDE E. DEVINE St. Paul, Minn...
Married. Genevieve Garvan Brady, 52, widowed Papal Duchess, most prominent U. S. Roman Catholic laywoman (TIME, Feb. 22); and William J. Babington Macaulay, 44, Minister to the Vatican from the Irish Free State; by Archbishop John Gregory Murray of St. Paul, Minn.; in Manhattan, after which they sailed for Italy...