Word: rollering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stampeding, snake-dancing. The Star-Spangled Banner, The Sidewalks of New York, the steam-roller--all the accouterments of the Great Deadlock of 1924 found their way into New Lecture Hall for two evenings, and Harvard saw a convention that proved to be a remarkable facsimile of the Democratic meeting four years ago. Not only in the superficial aspects of cheering delegates and persistent, singing did the gathering at Cambridge resemble its national predecessor; but, even as the party was obliged to compromise in 1924, so did the mark convention compromise last evening...
...more than probable that they know what they want, even if others do not. At any rate they have taken steps to get it. The president-general, undaunted by a die-hard faction that called her "King George", and made ominous accusations that the congress had been a "steam-roller convention", seems to have won a great victory. The contract for supplying the members' pins was cancelled by a unanimous vote, the former holder of the contract having apparently been identified with the "Insurgents." It is obvious that such drastic treatment must get results, and with the delicate problem...
...hard at work in his shirt-sleeves and bade him by a gesture to continue. Passing on into the news and composing rooms Il Duce greeted many an old employe by name and by clapping him in fatherly fashion upon the back. Pausing before the ink-stained composing room roller towel he beamed and cried with mock-heroic satisfaction: "It's just as black as ever-the color of a good Fascist shirt...
...Joseph Paul Day, Manhattan realtor, "who has auctioned off more than a billion dollars worth of real estate during his career," was the hero of the article the newsgatherer subsequently wrote. "Among his fellow passengers were H. E. Mansville of Johns-Mansville, Inc., W. R. Timken of the Timken Roller Bearing Co. and Bowman Gray of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco...
...Timken Roller Bearing Co. (roller bearings for every type of vehicle on wheels) -$9,500,000. That was the amount named by Vice President William R. Timken. He, four brothers and their father began the company in 1904 with $100,000 capital. Its assets...