Word: packs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Early next morning 400 strikers gathered at the Gates mine of the Frick company, 15 mi. from, Uniontown. Six mine bosses followed by a few maintenance men started to shove through the pack. A picket leader jostled a mine guard. Stones began to fly. "Let 'em have it!" roared a mine boss. Bang-bang-bang went the mine guards' guns. Tear gas enveloped the strikers. One guard shot another guard's arm off by mistake. Fifteen strikers were dropped by bullets, their names a typical roster of U. S. mine labor: Louis Kromer, Steve Hrosky, George...
...chief drawing himself up importantly. "I'm sailing this afternoon on the Indianapolis." "When do you get there?" "Friday. " "What part of Cuba are you going to?" Havana - direct to Havana." "Have you special instructions from the President?" "No special instructions," and Secretary Swanson marched off to pack his bags. Within an hour big black headlines blazoned to the country the news that President Roosevelt was rushing his Secretary of the Navy to the heart of the Cuban crisis, presumably to command the U. S. naval demonstration already under way off Havana. Not stopping to read a newspaper Secretary...
...pastor of Manhattan's socialite Madison Square Presbyterian Church, bushy-bearded, scholarly Dr. Parkhurst amazed his congregation by a sermon in which he charged that gambling and prostitution were protected by New York's police. He hotly described the Tammany administration as "a damnable pack of administrative bloodhounds, polluted harpies, and a lying, perjured, rum-soaked, libidinous lot." When he failed either to substantiate or retract his charges, a grand jury denounced him for "dragging New York into the mire and wiping his feet on it." He determined to collect proof of his charges personally. Disguised in checked...
Homesickness is a condition which may become strong enough to cause physiological conditions, observed Professor Beardsley Ruml of the University of Chicago. An attack may come on suddenly, which explains why children, Negroes and other uninhibited individuals may pack up without warning and clear out of uncongenial surroundings. While analyzing the psychic components of homesickness Professor Ruml concluded that "nostalgic sentiments have a varied and important role in social institutions. They affect the distribution of population. They are the foundation of patriotism, nationality. They operate to increase vocational and class stability and tend to promote conservatism in all forms...
...bankers and stockmarket gamblers were not to blame. They had been brought up in the school of Ricardo*; and John Stuart Mill and more latterly, Mr. Herbert Hoover." Father Coughlin was putting on a one-man show for the one-man jury. Much to the delight of a hot pack of Detroiters who squeezed into the courtroom, he thumped, ranted and deplored for two full days. He discoursed at length on the subject of gold; he sketched the history of money; he traced the origins of the War; he debated Karl Marx with Michigan's Attorney General...