Word: rans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gave over to John D. Rockefeller Jr., but it was as a reformer that he first caught the public eye, as an inquisitor who with extraordinary ability exposed skulduggery in the gas and insurance businesses. It was in that role, sometimes referred to as "Charles the Baptist," that he ran for Governor in 1906, and beat William Randolph Hearst...
...turned on the plant's ventilating system, cleared out the gas almost as fast as it came in. One excited deputy was burned with his own gas bomb. Acid containers hit two policemen, splashed them painfully. One striker quit the plant badly gassed. After two hours the officers ran out of tear gas and Sheriff Doolittle's men withdrew. The strikers declined medical aid, huddled in miserable triumph as cold winds whistled through the broken windows of the heatless, lightless factory. . . . Heat came up after two days, but negotiations to end the strike remained frozen. Like Governor Murphy...
...twelve other men were working up underneath the completed centre span of the new San Francisco-Marin County bridge.* Like wrinkled grey granite, 220 ft. below them ran the swift tidal currents of the Golden Gate. Most of the men were standing on a heavy wooden platform, slung below the rail-girders on steel beams. They were yanking away the boards from beneath the hardened concrete floor of the 4,200-ft. span. Two men were below them picking fallen boards out of the stout hempen safety net that stretched the whole length of the span...
Frederick W. Cook, recently reelected Secretary of State of Massachusetts, is an authority on governmental law. After graduating from high school in 1891, he served 28 years in Somerville politics, holding the offices of assistant clerk of comimttees, assistant city clerk, and city clerk. He then ran successfully for Secretary of State. Of this office, which he has held ever since despite political tides, he says himself...
...versatility and excellence Mason Fernald is outstanding. Against Andover three weeks ago he tied the record for the 40-yard high hurdles, and at Exeter a week later he placed in four events, winning three of them, placing second in the other, and in addition ran in the winning relay that substituted for the B.A.A. relay team...