Word: rider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stormy night in Cleveland last winter a motorist picked up a stranger, was amazed to hear the rider babble of mysterious doings in the war plant where he worked. The motorist told the FBI, which quietly began investigating one of the country's biggest makers of aluminum castings for war planes, tanks and ships-the National Bronze and Aluminum Foundry Co. The FBI's findings caused a grand jury to issue the first indictments against U.S. businessmen tinder the World War I Sabotage...
...boys at Brewer's would rather talk about the 1939 election in which Jack Evans, a salt-&-peppery veteran of 25 years in Westerns, beat out Rube Dalroy, a full-bearded, booted ex-circus clown and rider with Buffalo Bill, for the whimsical honor of being Mayor of Gower Gulch. The campaign was promoted by Brewer's so that the clientele would buy more drinks. To vote, you had to write your candidate's name on a cash-register receipt. Business zoomed. But the election almost went into a tailspin when a late starter appeared. The dark...
...Opposition barked at his heels like Kelpie dogs, while the man-in-the-saddle sought to build up his country's war contributions and at the same time justify his actions to the trades unions who had put him up. "Honest John" Curtin was a fair dinkum rider; last week 4,500,000 of his countrymen went to the polls for a general election (TIME, Aug. 23), voted Labor twelve of the Opposition's seats. Probable new House of Representatives lineup: Labor 48, Opposition 24, Independent...
Speculators Win. In the wake of the frenzied demand, the "free riders" had a field day. Because the Treasury wanted to get the notes into vaults of small banks and safety deposit boxes of individual investors, it had stipulated that subscriptions up to $100,000 would be allotted first. Speculators hastened to put their names down for such sums, confident they could sell the notes as soon as they got them to people and institutions really intending to hold them. Because it was necessary to put up only 2% of the subscription at the time of making the commitment, many...
...They were opposed to the New Deal's centralization of government. Straw-in-the-wind: one of the strongest States' rights declarations came from Utah's Herbert B. Maw, longtime coattail-rider to the New Deal...