Word: returning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...C.LO. She Blow Up." Returning to Cleveland by plane, Steelman Girdler found good news awaiting him. With back-to-work sentiment hardening into effective political pressure, Governor Davey announced that the Right to Work was as "sacred" as the Right to Strike. To his troops flashed orders to protect all workers who wanted to return to their jobs. The same militiamen who had received such a warm welcome when they marched into the Mahoning Valley early in the week were now roundly damned by the union as public strikebreakers...
...nickel feelings quickly vanished when the detective magazine in which she had seen Irwin's picture awarded her $1,000, gave her an airplane ride to Manhattan, introduced her at a night club, interviewed her on the radio. ''I ddn t know whether I'll return to my job as pantry-maid or not," she said...
...Nearly every mind that might have disputed with Stalin for leadership has been destroyed by execution, exile or imprisonment. If Lenin were to return to life in this Red State that he founded he would see few familiar faces. . . . The happiest people here now are those in middling jobs. It is only obscure people who feel safe. That is true in every field, including the Communist Party ranks. . . . This city's aspect is not different from ordinary times and no more troops than usual are in evidence...
Champion Braddock's net return from his share of last week's $715,000 gross receipts, ninth largest in ring history, was some $60,000,* far less than he was offered as a guarantee for fighting Challenger Schmeling. But Champion Braddock's loss was trifling compared to Madison Square Garden's. After last week's fight. Promoter Jacobs signed a five year contract for Champion Louis' exclusive services. Since a condition of fighting Joe Louis will doubtless be for all challengers a similar contract with Promoter Jacobs, Louis' victory last week gave Promoter...
...love of their stockholders which moved many a board of directors to pay out as much as 99% of earnings in dividends rather than 27% in surplus profits tax. Contented stockholders would buy more stock, return to their company as much cash or more than they received in dividends. One of the first big companies to go the whole hog on this method of making everybody but the Collector of Internal Revenue happy was Sears, Roebuck & Co., which paid out approximately all it earned to its 34,500 stockholders, then proceeded to sell them $43,000,000 worth...