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Word: overman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Women's Trade Union League on the ground that they were not affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. Fourteen-year-old Binnie Green, who weighs 69 pounds, told of getting $4.95 for 60 hours' work a week in the mills. North Carolina's ponderous Senator Overman patted her on the head, and said: "This child ought to be in school." Then he backed away into the Senate, there to renew his warnings of Communistic agitation in his State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: In Happy Valley | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...textile strikes was taken in the U. S. Senate last week when Montana's Wheeler offered a resolution for an investigation, at the request of President Green of the American Federation of Labor. Quickly uprose in protest North Carolina's two Senators?white-haired, old-fashioned Lee Slater Overman and small, grey-foxy Furnifold McLendel Simmons. They could see no good reason for an inquiry into North Carolina's labor troubles?and antiquated labor laws. Senator Simmons declared that if there was to be a textile strike investigation, let it include Massachusetts as well as the South. Senator Overman, pulling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: War of Attrition | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...Overman, North Carolina's junior Senator, protested. "The men who testified were responsible and high-toned," he said. But Senator Heflin, who yields to no man for responsibility or "high tone," roared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Brown Derby | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...live with him en trois. At the end they had retreated to other, less complicated amorous arrangements, and he was looking up telephone numbers in the faithful old notebook which had been waiting quietly the entangled while. All this is clumsy; seldom witty; always eminently well played by Lynne Overman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...advised Producer John Golden to take this play to Manhattan. It concerns a lisping tattletale in trousers, who so irks a houseful of guests that the Chief of Police himself yields to an itch to plug the stream of slander with a bullet. Unfortunately the shot misses. Actor Lynne Overman burlesqued his role of wag-tongue -which is about all that could be done with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: May 2, 1927 | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

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