Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago miners and operators met for a final conference in Washington. Just an hour before they assembled Chief Justice Hughes began to read the Supreme Court's sentence of death on NRA. But already miners and operators alike had begun to seek a new savior. They had picked the bill of Pennsylvania's Senator Joseph F. Guffey to declare bituminous coal a public utility; to set up a Federal Commission to allot coal production; to establish 21 regional marketing agreements to maintain minimum prices, wage and hour schedules for labor; to appropriate...
...Sicilian contractor, looks and acts as if he might have been invented by Dashiell Hammett. He is tall and dark, sleek, sad-eyed, softspoken, close-mouthed and elusive. The public has heard that he lives quietly with his mother in The Bronx, takes no interest in women, has never read a detective story in his life. No one except Scaffa knows just how much stolen property he has retrieved. He puts the figure...
...happened, the annual Cape-to-Cairo airplane junket had reached Southern Rhodesia last week. Two platoons of British colonial troops were piled into four Royal Air Force planes, rushed to Roan's railhead, Ndola, followed by an entire regiment in a special train. Officials read the riot act at Luanshya. Tin helmets were issued, floodlights swept the compounds, the mine patrols went their rounds with fixed bayonets...
...military procession, including a 50-piece brass band and a car bearing officers of General Yeh Peng's staff. Attached to the hood of the car was a white banner five feet wide, blazoned with characters big as a man's head that every literate Chinese could read...
...zealous Presbyterian was "appointed by God to straighten out the problems of the world." In 1916 the Judge succeeded the late Charles Taze Russell of Brooklyn, founder-president in 1878 of the Bible Students. This organization now claims 2,500,000 followers who in 60 languages in 34 nations read its pamphlets and its journals, Watch Tower and Golden...