Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Workers' President John Llewellyn Lewis ringingly offered a union code. He argued his organization was the only stabilizing influence in an industry ruled by "the law of the jungle," that tycoons, "in spite of fluent lip service to the principles of the National Recovery Act," were taking a "narrow and indefensible attitude" toward its execution. Important mine operators who supported his code included Cleveland's Frank E. Taplin (North American Coal Corp.), Chicago's George Bates Harrington (Chicago, Wilmington & Franklin Coal) and Omaha's Eugene McAuliffe (Union Pacific Coal Co.). After four days...
...women, continues her narrow pencil-line dresses for daytime, rives a mandarin shape to her knee-length, tailored wool coats. Fur from head to heel is used by all couturiers but Helm swirls it most lavishly around throats, shoulders, hems, hats and capes. Jean Paton turns his peplums upside down to look like stiff upstanding coat tails and features long sleeves, no backs, huge under-chin bows for evening...
...evening last week a file of cars climbed craggy Virginia Canyon 50 mi. west of Denver, rolled suddenly into the narrow street of an ancient mining town, wedged in a gulch a mile and a half above sea level. Above the main street the houses of Central City hang on the gulch walls like loose bark. Oldtime shops, dance halls, faro games, were going full blast, full of light & noise. Beaver-hatted men and bustled women strolled past. Lantern-faced miners smiled from their doorways. No Rip Van Winkle apparition in the mountains, all this was Colorado's second...
...Women's Narrow Compromise -- 1st. N. Y. White; 2nd. Annah T. Bleed. Time...
...Narrow Compromise -- 1st. H. A. White; 2nd. Lindsley Loving Jr. Time...