Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...danger of war did not loom as it loomed in 1915, but press, pulpit and meeting house were the scenes of spontaneous outbursts. As Mary Pickford quaintly put it, "I don't know what our dear Lord Jesus would think if he were to come back to earth today and see what his Christian babies are doing." And citizens of White Plains, N. Y. called on Charles A. Lindbergh and Henry Ford to return medals they lately accepted from Germany...
Having profanely put Mr. Bridges in his place, John L. Lewis informed the delegates that their constitution was a democratic document, ordered them to adopt it forthwith. They did. Its chief provisions gave each of C. I. O.'s 41 affiliates a member of the international executive board, empowered that board to investigate any "situation"' in any affiliate but left punitive action against member unions to annual or special C. I. O. conventions...
...Lewis' dinner was ruined by baldish Morris Watson, vice president of C. I. O.'s American Newspaper Guild. He introduced, and the convention passed, a resolution denouncing "the press generally, and certain newspapers especially," for their coverage of the convention. This put the blame not on the publishers but on the reporters present˜some of them Mr. Watson's own union constituents. It accused them of trying to reate dissension in C. I. O. by reporting its own unmistakable dissensions at the Convention...
Since 1934, charged Mr. Dewey, the Commissioner had received $67,000 from Parmelee Transportation Co., which operates 2,000 taxicabs in New York City, through President Morris Markin of Checker Cab Manufacturing Corp., Parmelee's parent organization. In return, said the indictment. Commissioner Harnett had let Parmelee put up its own $250,000 bonding fund to save paying premiums to a bonding company, and then allowed Parmelee to "borrow" half its money back for operating expenses, while denying these special but not illegal privileges to rival companies. Arrested, fingerprinted, released on $5,000 bail, Commissioner Harnett denied all charges...
...general. In so doing he revealed what may yet prove to be the most important international event since Munich, the efforts which the British Government is making to find a home for Germany's Jews. Having queried all the colonies, he revealed that the Governor of Tanganyika has put at his disposal 50,000 acres on which to settle Jewish men, their families to follow if the experiment succeeded...