Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tony Stralla boasted that his boat was safe, his games honest, his service perfection. For 25? you could ride out in a water taxi and gamble 24 hours per day (the return trip was free). He advertised in Los Angeles newspapers and with skywriting. Customers swarmed out to him this season by thousands...
...idle but nonstriking production workers ; granted many wage increases but not a general one; agreed to eliminate some wage differentials, narrow others. Most important to G. M. and both U. A. W.s, the C. I. O. union in effect got exclusive recognition in 42 G. M. plants.* In return it pledged itself to prevent wildcat strikes, help G. M. through a smooth 1940 production year. "We hope," said Mr. Knudsen, whose new models were delayed three or four weeks, "it will be so." That it probably will not be so, a C. I. O. union official promptly indicated. "Our struggles...
...made things so extra hot for Sir Robert that a French cartoonist, in a picture of the lonely parleys, showed Britain's Ambassador not only coatless, but pantless, shirtless, shoeless-stark naked. Sir Robert: "And if I give you my disgusting banknotes?" Mr. Arita: "Then I shall return your honorable pants...
...Robert had indeed got himself in an embarrassing position. Having virtually granted Japan belligerent rights in China in return for the privilege of discussing the Tientsin issue in Tokyo, he last week gave way on the point which originally caused the Japanese Army to blockade Tientsin's foreign Concessions. Last April 9, Cheng Shi-kang, manager of the Japanese-controlled Tientsin customs, was shot while watching others shot in the film Gunga Din. Mr. Cheng was neither the first nor the last Japanese hireling to be assassinated, but he was no ordinary puppet. Most of the decrepit Chinese...
...amendment that the House reassemble in three weeks instead of two months. Last year, when Parliament adjourned (after a reassuring speech by Prime Minister Chamberlain), it reassembled to be faced by the Czecho-Slovak Crisis, and many a member among loyal pro-Chamberlain Conservatives felt uneasily that it might return to face a comparable crisis this autumn, that such a crisis would be hard to explain to the voters at home...