Word: peter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Couch, who owns an 863-mi. backwoods railroad line, the Louisiana & Arkansas. Last September some 400 of its engineers, firemen, brakemen and conductors walked out on strike. Demanding restoration of a wage agreement abrogated in 1933, they wanted the company to bargain jointly with their five union brotherhoods. President Peter Couch, the owner's brother, once an L. & A. fireman himself, insisted on dealing with them separately. He hired strikebreakers to keep in operation the railroad's service between Dallas, Tex., Hope, Ark. and New Orleans...
...three weeks. Then trouble popped. A train ran through an open switch, killing two of the crew. Three bridges burned. The strikers' womenfolk got hungry. At Minden, La. 200 of them swarmed on a train, stripped and beat the fireman, made the engineer telegraph his resignation to President Peter Couch...
...Peter H. Knapp '37, of Syracuse, New York, was elected captain of the Junior Varsity football team Tuesday afternoon at the regular practice session. Knapp, who plays left end, prepared at St. George's, and was also a member of the Rugby Team...
...wilder and more powerful book. Centring around a sinister moneylender, Mrs. Anna Ragner, who has involved Mrs. Fury in fantastic debts, it is written in an even more sombre key than The Furys, pictures events more nerve-racking, hysterical, violent. Mrs. Fury has borrowed in order to keep Peter at college, borrowed more to pay interest, pledged her furniture, the earnings of her family, the possessions of her son-in-law, the compensation paid for her son's injury. At the day of reckoning Peter returns after a year at sea, is astonished when the ugly, middle-aged moneylender...
...suddenly deserts his family, goes to sea again. Maureen Fury Kilkey frees her goodhearted, ugly husband from the debt with money she gets from an old admirer, then disappears. Desmond Fury, an ambitious, unscrupulous labor leader, detaches himself from the family while his wife Sheila resumes her affair with Peter. Peter meanwhile discovers for the first time the extent of his mother's sacrifices for him, works, tries to save her, makes an enemy of Mrs. Ragner's villainous assistant, at last, when the loan is called, kills the moneylender and races home to be caught...