Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unconscious. The mob found Holmes on the second floor. He put up a hard fight for life. Thurmond was in a cell on the third floor which had been vacated by Palo Alto's Murderer David A. Lamson (TIME, Sept. 11 & 25). He clawed the ceiling like a rat in a flooded bunker. From inside the jail two trails of blood led across the court yard, across the street, stopped beneath two trees in the park. Not far from a statue of assassinated William McKinley, the murderous kidnappers were hanged. Governor Rolph, who prides himself on his hearty Western...
...different palates. Though the farmers may be slightly mollified, Wall Street is not. "The money-changers" are very unhappy about the whole thing. It goes against the natures of such simple idealists to be forced into the sceptic's position, nostrils dilated at the unpleasant aroma of a rat; but their hard business heads suspect that "managed currency" is just another slogan for that hardly defined but always suspicious phenomenon: inflation. The President is coming face to face with the sad fact that farmer and banker are betting on very different horses with no hope of a tie-race...
...denounced the whole fair practice section of the Retail Code. It was learned that Dr. Alexander Sachs of NRA's Research Division had confidentially reported to General Johnson that "stop-loss" was price-fixing and nothing more. Consumers' leagues, Granges, the American Farm Bureau Federation sniffed a rat and began to howl. To these groups price-fixing in any form meant only one thing: a deliberate attempt to gouge the public...
When the N.R.A. was first documented there were many who suspiciously scented a rat in the structure, saying that it had Fascist proclivities of a disturbing nature. The latest "fighting speech" of General Johnson will not do much to allay these worries. Dragging out the musty old rhetorical formula of banker and steel-worker pulling together in sweet harmony toward Prosperity, the General has added as a corollary that strikes are inimical to that teamwork; and this declaration has been approvingly echoed in the press everywhere. In place of the strike, "mediation boards" are to settle all industrial disputes...
...rat-haunted city room a patient, portly gentleman named Chester Sanders Lord was doing for the Sun's news coverage what Dana was doing for its editorial prestige. It was "Boss" Lord (he died last month at 83, nationally remembered) who worked out the Sun's own system for gathering election returns in the Cleveland-Elaine campaign. He announced correctly that Cleveland had carried New York when all the other papers had conceded it to Elaine. Boss Lord's figures were within 50 votes of the official count. When Dana broke off relations with the Associated Press...