Word: restful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Booth, defensive bulwark at tackle, smeared Tiger passer Dave Allerdice on his own five-yard line. Booth picked the bounding ball out of Allerdice's failing arms but was downed immediately. On one play Macdonald went half way to score and on the next he went the rest of the way. A holding penalty foiled the attempted conversion...
...President of the United States last week enjoyed himself in the role of country squire at Hyde Park. He gave out one formal statement, expressing his hopes that the new Wages & Hours law would work, and that employers doing intrastate business would comply with its spirit. For the rest he drove in his car through the woodland roads of his estate, watching his trees grow, and enjoyed the squirely duty of receiving visitors. No ordinary squire, he naturally had callers of no ordinary distinction...
...digging project in New York City's Bronx, 38 walked off the job one day last week and refused to labor more. Their reason: working with either pick or shovel was hard enough, but to ask any man to use these tools interchangeably (i.e., without a chance to rest while another worker plied the other tool) was "inhuman." Result: one man discharged, one suspended, interchangeable picking & shoveling resumed...
Ulster*-which became officially Northern Ireland when the rest of the island became the Irish Free State, now Eire-was recently shocked: from London came reports that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had agreed to discuss with Prime Minister Eamon de Valera whether the people of Ulster should now decide by plebiscite whether to remain part of the United Kingdom or join Eire. Last week Ulster was flabbergasted when tall, teacher-ish Eamon de Valera suddenly announced at Dublin that his demands go much beyond a plebiscite...
While Detroit hummed, the rest of the U. S. also contributed to the din of reviving times. Carloadings hit a 1938 high of 726,612-23,000 above the previous week but still 79,000 under the same week year ago. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins reported that placements by the U. S. Employment Service reached a new peak in September, while applications fell for the first time in a year. Steel, power and cotton textile output were up. Two fat refunding issues went to a premium in Wall Street. Spurred by General Motors, stocks climbed to new 1938 levels...