Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boss Kelly figured as a rat, Chicago's Health Commissioner Herman Bundesen as a mosquito. When an opponent praised him for his eloquence, he retorted: "Just liquid vowels." Ambitious, he won a big radio audience outside Illinois when his 1936 Roosevelt talks proved so successful that he was put on a national network. Smith on Smith: "The Town Crier of America's Main Street"; "an ignorant man and a philosopher...
...labor position weakened by inter-union feuds, longshoremen were not quite willing to grant the outright guarantee against outlaw "quickies" which President Almon Roth of the Pacific Coast Waterfront Employers Association originally demanded. Instead the Bridges union agreed to punish contract violators by suspension or expulsion, to put disputed cases up to five permanent arbitrators, in no event to stop work while the new peace machinery functions. If, as Almon Roth publicly hopes, seagoing unions give similar assurance, the West Coast may be in for an era of unaccustomed labor tranquillity...
...first made the voyage through Mem Hall--learning how to sign his name on the way, signing up for all the periodicals. He remembered his initial trip across the Square, how he had wanted to take a taxi back to the Yard; he recalled the sign he'd put on his door warning solicitors of his full contentment. He signed as he thought of the first time he had heard the sound three trolley cars make when on their way to bed together; of the last vestiges of the Tercentenary in the Yard and how he could never pronounce that...
...elaborate plan to extend the Cambridge-Dorchester subway beyond its present terminus in Harvard square to the North Cambridge carbarns two miles off was put before the City Council by Mayor John W. Lyons...
With a monthly turnover of more than a billion dollars, C. J. Devine & Co. is said to handle more Government bonds than all its rivals put together. Last week C. J. Devine & Co. was busy, for the Treasury offered its first new money financing in the open market in over a year-$400,000,000 of twelve-to-fourteen-year 2½%, bonds (maturing Sept. 15, 1952, issued in denominations ranging from $50 to $100,000) and $300,000,000 of 1⅛% notes(maturing from June 15, 1943, issued in denominations from $100 to $100,000).* Holders...