Word: rooted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opening Guns. Indicted in St. Louis for conspiracy in restraint of trade were four American Federation of Labor leaders, headed by reactionary, hulking William L. Hutcheson of Indianapolis, president of the carpenters' union (300,000 members). Root of the indictment: a 25-year-old jurisdictional dispute between carpenters' and machinists' unions over equipment installations at the Anheuser-Busch brewery, forcing abandonment of plans to build additional aging and fermenting plants, etc., to cost from $750,000 to $2,000,000. The dispute, said an Arnold assistant, Roscoe Steffen, "could be settled in an hour if the leadership...
...insistence on liberty and personal responsibility, but in practice the free peoples have abused the freedom it has given them by turning it, as St. Paul says, to uses of the flesh. . . . The leaders of democracy in Europe have for the first time come publicly to recognize the real root of Europe's persistent troubles and that federalism is the basic remedy for them...
...Williston Club earned the decision over the Root Club last night at the Langdell Hall Court Room in the first of the semi-final arguments of the Ames competition...
William H. Fleming and Richard G. Hershey argued for the winning Williston Club; Hans R. Frey and Stanley Johnson, representing the Root Club, furnished the opposition...
...potential strength of the unseasoned squad has long been the problem as well as the hope of Harvard root- ers. For three years the present Seniors on the team have witnessed devastating victories for championship Dartmouth elevens...