Word: rails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swinging deck chairs, clubs, anything they could lay their hands to, the Bremen's stout Nazi crew went to work. As the fight spread, some of the women pulled out handcuffs, fastened themselves to the railing, screamed imprecations against Realmleader Hitler. Reported Editor Thomas Davin of Robert M. McBride & Co., publishers: "As we crossed over the deck, we saw a woman handcuffed to the rail. . . . The officer was striking her with what appeared to be a blackjack. ... As he hit her she ducked around. Then another fellow caught her. He held her head still with one hand over...
Undeterred by such comments, the President last week continued his non-partisan activities which included: ¶ The ostentatious summoning to Washington of his Congressional finance heads to announce that no new taxes were in prospect. ¶ A trip by rail to Johnstown, in pivotal Pennsylvania, where he motored for two hours through last spring's flood regions, was cheered everywhere by great throngs, declared, "The Federal Government, so long as I have anything to do with it, is going to cooperate ... in taking every possible measure to prevent floods in the future...
...trout stream, Daughter Peggy Anne was never far from his side or from a camera. Even an illiterate could have learned, by following last week's news pictures (see cuts), that Peggy Anne Landon: 1) sat by a campfire with her father; 2) posed on a porch rail with her father; 3) ate a picnic supper with her father; 4) tossed snowballs with her father; 5) rode horseback with her father; 6) walked out on a jutting mountain ledge with her father. With quiet, handsome Mrs. Theo Cobb Landon fully occupied by her bouncing babies, Nancy Jo and Jack...
...greater profits through decreased costs. Assessments vary in the same manner as dividends." For Mr. Davis' manufacturing claim, Mr. Ernst Lad just as ingenious a rebuttal: "News, in its intangible form, is carried over the air by wires; in printed form, it is carried over the ground by rail. The difference in means of transmission cannot affect or diminish the power of Congress to regulate respondent's activities as it can regulate the activities of railroads...
...Pilot Art Williams, in Guiana after an air search for Paul Redfern, to fly over her. When Williams reported she was indeed the Girl Pat, a police launch set out to arrest her. As it drew alongside, the Girl Pat's doughty crew of four appeared at the rail stripped for a fight. Shouted Captain George Black Osborne: "We're outside the three-mile limit. Get out or we'll sink...