Word: pile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers per year. Nine-tenths of these employes are clerks, stenographers, letter carriers, janitors, messengers, chauffeurs, laborers, agents and inspectors, all of whom are under the classified civil service and therefore hold their jobs regardless of elective changes. At the top of the personnel pile, however, are approximately a thousand key positions from which the Government is really run. To fill these executive jobs with men of his own choosing is a new President's official privilege and political duty...
...policemen and liked them. He had spent several weeks in jail, not because he had done anything wrong but because it was safer for him. He was a man of 47 with a wife and children. He and Policeman Weigand sat on a bench in front of the coal pile. From time to time Gobel banged open his fire door and a bloody glow would spread over the coal. He would cover the white spots on the fire box. with an eye on the water gauge, then he would come back to the bench and talk...
...great deal of noise. It was 3:40 (he was off at 6) when Gobel went out in the yard for his next look around. It was his last one. This time there was noise in the boiler room but not from the shovel. Weigand scrambled over the coal pile. A slug shattered his right arm. He dropped his gun on the coal. He picked it up with his left hand. Outside he thought he saw some figures running. He fired at them. Then he fell down, shot in the hip. He got up again. Another policeman ran up. They...
...Pabst moved the disaster up to 1919, showed the reminiscent rancor of the War in an exclamation by the sweetheart of an imprisoned French miner when she hears that a rescue party is coming over from the German side. She says: "Les Alle-magnes?c'est impossible!" The Germans pile out of trucks, go down the shaft with gas masks. A French miner, muddled by fear and dazed by gas, when he sees someone crawling toward him in a mask mistakes his rescuer for a German soldier. Director Pabst never stops emphasizing his theme?that for miners...
...have been President long ago." Toward dusk, in the big house on the Palo Alto hill, blackboards were set up, just as they had been one triumphant evening in 1928. On that occasion the happy guests and their gravely exalted host had watched the electoral votes of the nation pile up, up, up into the most colossal majority ever polled by a President-elect-444 for Hoover & Curtis to 87 for Smith &; Robinson. Now many of the same guests and a host deeply dejected but keeping a brave front, watched the slow pile-up of an electoral total even more...