Word: ran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shaw retired from the Navy on pension in 1933. That year his older brother was elected mayor and he promptly moved in with him as secretary. Although Brother Joseph modestly described himself as a flag officer to Brother Frank, the admiral, the impression got about that Brother Joseph really ran things. To him went credit for the new air base, supply warehouses and improved anchorages which have made Los Angeles one of the Navy's favorite ports. He also got credit for other things: rumor was that he and Del Gado had smuggled $250,000 into Mexico...
General Strike. Apart from aliens, of whom there are in France on temporary permits or illegally over 3,000,000 persons (i. e., about 7% of all persons in France), French workers ran true to form last week. Their French leaders objected furiously to the recent series of decree laws introduced by Premier Daladier (with parliamentary authority previously voted and to be confirmed or withdrawn by Parliament) mainly for one reason: they claimed, justly in the main, that on their face these laws impose sacrifices which bear more heavily upon Labor than upon Capital. The businessman's side...
...window when they announced the lecture had been moved to New Lecture Hall. He didn't mind getting his feet wet in the drifts under that window. He didn't mind the jostle in the rush past Memorial Hall. He was going to hear Robert Frost, and his mind ran back to that night several winters ago when it had last heard him. Mr. Frost had packed the New Lecture Hall full then, too, even with a northeast gale howling outside--the kind of a day they wouldn't go to church...
...merely the usual legal attack on Big Business management, the milk-trust charges encompassed union activities and ran the gamut from price-fixing to tales of arson, flogging and stench bombings. Chicago was picked as the locale for the trial because these factors made it represent "in extreme form" what the Department of Justice terms a nationwide milk "situation...
...drains the Powder River grass country where Western history was made. It watered the great ranch of the English-owned Powder River Cattle Co., which once ran 60,000 head of cattle. Along its valley rode 55 raiders from the big ranches of the South who came to fight the Johnson County...