Word: roughing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those indicted were mere cogs in the political machine. Only one big shot has been subpoenaed-Representative Joe Shannon. He ran one of his own candidates against a Pendergast candidate in the primary as he sometimes does. He complained afterward of "rough stuff, kidnapping, beating of my workers and the worst padding and fraudulent voting I have seen in my long political career." He departed for Washington before a subpoena could be served upon him. Said he: "Sure, I'll return to Kansas City if they want me." But a month went by. Last week he was finally...
Dudley H. Cloud 3G won considerable recognition from Harper's publishing house with his story "The Rough Spot" which appeared in the December issue. From the same issue the Oxford Group ordered 3000 reprints of "The Oxford Group and the World Crisis," by Hermann Hagerdorn '07, author of the Tercentenary Ode, "Harvard, What of the Light...
...again earned many thousand dollars for the care of infantile paralysis patients. Far from pleasing, however, was the news that the Public Utility Act of 1935, which he spent $200,000 to defeat in Congress, had been partly upheld in New York Circuit Court (TIME, Feb. 8). With rough weather ahead for Cities Service, from Temple Hospital last week old Mr. Doherty made one of the rare compromises of his life, offered to pay the company $1,250,000 in settlement of a stockholders' suit against...
...them the most luxurious in the world. Instead of 21 seats arranged in rigid rows, United installed 14 big swivel chairs, much like those in a Pullman, giving passengers more comfort and room to use such gewgaws as bridge tables, footstools, chessmen magnetized so they will not tumble in rough air. United's sacrifice of seven seats, though partially offset economically by increased cargo capacity, still leaves a 30% reduction in normal DC-3 payload. Therefore United made its new "Skylounges" the world's first extra-fare planes, imitating the standard practice of special trains and crack liners...
Many a farmer and construction engineer has been exasperated by the way his tractor bounces and loses its grip over rough terrain, even though weights are hung on rear axles, hooked to the spokes. Last week, B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio, announced a remedy which works if the tractor has pneumatic tires...