Word: playing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good contract for the company . . . a good contract for a responsible union," said Mr. Keller. Contentedly, he sat down to play solitaire (see cut). Said Frank Murphy: "The public interest was thwarted. ... By whom? By all of us-government, industry and labor. . . . We can no longer go on with these conflicts and the loss inflicted on the general public...
...Also "available" became bodacious, New-Deal-loathing Frank Gannett, Rochester, N. Y. publisher, and chairman of his own National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government. While Mr. Gannett was away (on a Western speaking tour), the office mice began to play, nominated him in an editorial written without his knowledge, and without his robust style. In Spokane, Wash., pleased Mr. Gannett bumbled: "No American . . . would decline the nomination if it were offered him.*Mr. Gannett had been nominated before: by British Press Peer Lord Beaverbrook last year (TIME...
Eastern Front will become a reality." "The result of the war is not to be decided only by military operations," Premier Edouard Daladier significantly declared. "In the final decision the evolution of international policy and the relationship between powers and the action of moral forces will play a big part." Evolving at an ominous pace were the international policies and relationships of Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini...
Last summer, at an age when most hockey players put away their skates for good, 36-year-old Eddie Shore bought the minor-league Springfield (Mass.) Indians with $40,000 of his savings, planned to play with the minor-leaguers himself. Because Boston was loath to lose him, Eddie Shore agreed to play with the Bruins once a week (at $200 a game), manage the Indians the rest of the time, put off donning his Indian suit until next year...
...fourth quarter the Redskins got going, scored a touchdown and kicked the extra point. Then, with only 45 seconds to play, the score 9-to-7 and the ball on the 16-yard line, Coach Ray Flaherty, realizing that a field goal was the Redskins' only hope, sent in Beau Russell to placekick. The ball sailed between the uprights-so most of the spectators thought. But Referee Bill Halloran thought otherwise, ruled the kick wide. To the tune of the worst booing ever heard in the historic old Polo Grounds, the Giants marched off with the Eastern championship...