Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rewrite men and columnists jumped to conclusions, tagged Deputy Dolores "beautiful," "exotic." She is a plain, middle-aged ex-laun-dress of cyclonic violence who insists upon wearing "widow's weeds" although her husband is alive. What Spaniards call a "Passion Flower" is an exceedingly fragile plant which shrivels at a touch. Old friends say that after she and her husband left each other to struggle separately for Communism her air of "quiet sorrow" at this estrangement earned her the nickname of the Passion Flower...
...Lynch and Armstrong was refused. The Seattle Central Labor Council promptly announced that the Post-Intelligencer was "unfair to organized labor." The Guild ordered its membership out, claimed 40 newsmen from the Post-Intelligencer's staff of 68 answered the strike call. A picket line around the publishing plant was formed, aided by the redoubtable Teamsters', Loggers' and Longshoremen's unions. Careful to explain that they "were not on a sympathetic strike," the Post-Intelligencer's typographical men simply refused to pass through the tough picket lines to & from work...
...station passed correspondents' dispatches conveying the bad news that Ethiopian peasants are sowing practically no grain or coffee, "because they fear it will be confiscated by the Italians or brigands." Viceroy Graziani was reported to have appointed a commission to study ways & means of getting the peasants to plant again. "Rumors that a provisional Ethiopian Government has been formed in the West are ridiculed here," read an Addis Ababa dispatch from United Pressman James Rohrbaugh: "The natives in the unoccupied regions are not fighting against the Italians, but among themselves. The Ethiopians have been awed by Italy...
Suspecting the scotched Reds would try to tamper with Athens' electric plant, General Metaxas moved a battleship to anchor nearby. He sent destroyers to overawe Salonika, the Greek city in which Reds are strongest. Greeks woke up to find that their walls had been freshly plastered at dawn with posters reading: "The Government measures were made necessary because the country was on the eve of an outbreak of a subversive and seditious movement fostered by Communist propaganda and aiming at disaffection in the Army and the spread of the spirit of Anarchy...
...Michael James Gallagher. Born in Auburn, Mich, of Irish parents, "Mike" Gallagher was educated for the priesthood in Limerick, Ireland and Innsbruck, Austria. In the years following the War, Detroit's shepherd organized no new parishes, gave the University of Detroit a new 96-acre campus and plant, raised $9,000,000 for Sacred Heart Seminary, invited a dozen new religious communities to live and work among Detroit's 600,000 Catholics. Yet the total of all these worthy deeds has brought the white-thatched old churchman less fame outside his diocese than the fact that he happens...