Word: pritchett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oregon, with first or second generation Finns, it looked as if Russia's invasion might influence labor politics. Voting was on in the potent International Woodworkers of America, with a battle revolving around President Harold Pritchett, able left-winger, ally of Harry Bridges, and like Bridges threatened with deportation. Stridently anti-Communist is the opposition in Portland, Ore. Because I.W.A.'s members are scattered in remote logging camps, balloting takes a month. There were only three days of voting left when the Russian invasion began, but out of the northwest camps to Portland's anti-Pritchett headquarters...
...fenced off their best shooting grounds as private preserves, Agent Steele ignored the letters as long as he could. Then one warm morning last December he set out on a "routine patrol" along the Great Choptank, came to a blind which contained Walter P. Chrysler, his estate superintendent, William Pritchett, and ten dead ducks. "I'm sorry, Mr. Chrysler," said Agent Steele when he had finished his examination, "but this is against...
...that Mr. Chrysler had best consider that it was necessary. Chief Gabrielson: "All citizens are equal under the Law." Next day a nervous Mr. Chrysler faced a scowling judge and in barely audible tones confessed to the unplugged gun charge. "Of course I should have known," said he, "but Pritchett is supposed to look out for these things...
Superintendent Pritchett gladly shouldered the blame, said that he had ordered plugs but they had not arrived. As for the stamps, it was conceded that both men possessed them, had simply failed to paste them on their licenses. Of the most serious charge, baiting, the prosecuting attorney proclaimed "a shocking disregard for the law," demanded a conviction. Mr. Chrysler explained that he regularly scattered grain over his marshes except during hunting season, said 500 canvasbacks had boarded there last winter...
...Hara has never cared much about watching his university's famed football team in action. But before every game, each of which is dedicated to a saint, Notre Dame footballers go to him at the Shrine of St. Olaf for prayer and blessing. When President Emeritus Henry Smith Pritchett of Carnegie Foundation pointed an accusing finger at what he called Notre Dame commercialism last year, Father O'Hara snapped back: "He starts with the false assumption that highly publicized football is inimical to scholastic attainment." Then he went on to point out how football profits have nourished Notre...