Word: packs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would never bag Labor votes for Politico Hoover. About 125 men (mostly Spaniards) work in the ground and in two plants where quicksilver is distilled from cinnabar ore. They toil seven days a week (with pay for overtime), get around $4 a day. live in hovels, pay 20? a pack for cigarets at a company store. Recently they raised a fund for Loyalist Spain, then split over disposition of the money. One group called in C. I. O. organizers, who last week called them out on strike for union recognition. Brother Theodore and associates declined to recognize or dicker with...
...studying now, every one has some handicap which would make the President hesitate before naming him. Against Professor Frankfurter there are only two bad points from the White House point of view. The first is that during the bitter fight last year, when Mr. Roosevelt's plan to pack the Supreme Court was engaging the interest of the country Professor Frankfurter refused to stand at Armageddon and do battle for the Sage of Hyde Park...
There are two ways of fox hunting in the U. S. One is the elegant English style of riding to hounds. You gallop over a paneled countryside, jumping fences and ditches in breathless pursuit of a pack of hounds that are in breathless pursuit of a fugitive fox. The other is a strictly native procedure, evolved in the mountain country of the south. You sit on a fence, following the unaccompanied chase...
What the Beaverbrook papers do carry, however, is lots of reader entertainment-prepared by the best talent the Beaver can buy-and, most important, a running fire of pep talks and admonitions to the British people: BE OF GOOD CHEER . . . PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES . . . BUY A PEACE GIFT . . . PAY YOUR DEBTS AND KEEP TRADE BRISK...
...Wolfe pack lives mostly on aristocratic East Broad Street, pays little attention to Columbus society. Fifteen miles outside the city is the famed "Wigwam," which the Wolfes also share in common- a big wooded tract dotted with rustic lodges, a reception hall, movie theatre, swimming pool. Here Wolfes and their families gather in complete privacy for wholesome fun. Parties at the Wigwam sometimes run to several hundred guests. Herbert Hoover has been there often; so have Alf Landon, Frank Knox, Michigan's Senator Vandenberg...