Word: newtons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought was Hiram Dempsey's fist. Jailed for assault & battery, Hiram Dempsey next day proudly exhibited a telegram from his famed son, onetime Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey: "Congratulations to the new champ stop consider matching you with Joe Louis. -. ." Ill lay: Onetime (1916-21) Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, of a slight cerebral thrombosis, in Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; Chairman Aiming S. Prall of the Federal Communications Commission, of an ailment his son refused to name, in Boothbay Harbor, Me.; U. S. Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham, after a severe chill, in London; Actor William Powell, of nervous...
Michigan was quiet. The Newton Steel Co. (subsidiary of Republic) plant re-opened by Mayor Knaggs of Monroe and his civilian army (TIME, June 21) remained unmolested by the angry union motor workers though they threatened to boycott its product...
Sixty-five miles away in Pontiac, the United Automobile Workers local union, some 15,000 strong, inflamed by the news of what had happened to their C.I.O. cousins, declared a general holiday and announced a mass march on Monroe to close the Newton steel mill. Governor Murphy advised the auto men's chief, Homer Martin, to advise the Pontiac union against it. He did, and the march was called...
Union leaders still hoped to close the operating mills by strikes shutting off their ore supplies from Michigan, their coal supplies from Pennsylvania and by having automobile workers refuse to use the steel sheets from such mills as Newton Steel. The apparent trend of public opinion in the steel towns not only embittered union men but indicated that attempts would soon be made to open other plants besides the one at Monroe. This really alarmed the Governors of the States concerned. The battle at Monroe had shown what might happen if citizens and unionists were permitted to fight...
Then the writers trooped to the closed meetings of their respective crafts. What I happened in these would have been incredible anywhere else. Along with the discussion of scholarly and original papers like that of Professor Newton Arvin of Smith College on Roots of American Literature, there were bewilderingly hair-splitting literary squabbles that ranged from attacks on Gone With The Wind to attacks on Stalin and the French Popular Front. Now and then there were Dostoevskian interludes when embittered poets or philosophers interrupted the proceedings with autobiographical statements or expositions of their personal credos. Since in any group...