Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collective bargaining; guaranteed that no employe be required to join or refrain from joining any organization, as a condition of employment. Meanwhile staff writers of eight Philadelphia and Camden newspapers, not at all pleased with being classed as "professionals," drew up a list of objections, appointed Andrew McClean Parker, star reporter for David Stern's Philadelphia Record, to present their demands in Washington. They wanted the code to fix a 40-hr. week (as Scripps-Howard and Hearst voluntarily did fortnight ago) consisting of five 8-hour days, with no deduction in pay, and to guarantee that publishers would...
...miles below, at Parker, Telephone Operator Nettie Driscoll snapped into action. Frantically she plugged the Denver exchange, got through to the police station. A flood was roaring into town, she cried; it was tremendous; it was headed down Cherry Creek toward Denver. "I haven't got time to answer any questions.'' she shouted. "I can hear the roar of the water and I'm getting out of here...
Thundering like a mountain on the move, the wall of water surged through Parker, tumbled down Cherry Creek toward suburban Denver. Logs, tree-trunks, tons of debris were swept along as the billion-gallon deluge widened out to more than a mile. Cherry Creek was a battering-ram of water, boiling over its embankments. At 7 o'clock it burst into Denver, ripped out six bridges in swift succession. Just ahead of it were police cars and fire engines, sirens a-scream, racing the residents to safety. A stampede of 5,000, many clad in night clothes, fled from...
...England's Winston Green Gaol for 14 days lately went one Thomas Parker an unemployed ex-Guardsman. It was his first jail sentence, received for sleeping on the highway. On the second night of his imprisonment Parker began to shout that he must get out of jail, even if it meant getting into a coffin. Next morning at exercise he fell into a frenzy. Brought before the prison's acting governor, he was sentenced to three days in solitary confinement. As two guards led him toward the silence cell, he struggled frantically fell injured himself. Fifteen minutes later...
...Sard, Henry P. Walker, Jr., John Mitchell, Jane Hawkes, Augusta Flagg, Fonchen Usher, William W. Lord, Jane Gilman, Helena Niescherg, Winston J. Rowe, William Dennis, Miss H. Randal, Erik Lundberg, Franklin C. Forbes, L. A. Vigneras, G. Fuler, Willys Spencer, Peggy Moss Priscilla Wedger, Edwin Parkin, Donald Collins, Allice Parker. P. M. Mason, Wil-G. Chase, Henrietta Young...