Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rough & Tough. But the real snafu, the place where the phone strike began to realize its ugly potential, was in New Jersey...
While strikers cried "Fascism," police arrested three female officers of one union. The women were promptly released on bail (and one got married), but the arrest was enough to start lawyers for both sides preparing a case to test the constitutionality of Governor Driscoll's rough-tough...
...dropped her threadbare market bag, flew across the street in front of a lumbering, charcoal-burning truck and threw herself with a gasping cry upon the third prisoner. Prisoners and passers-by paused and gaped dumbly at the two Rodinesque figures fingering the backs of each other's rough coats and mumbling hysterically: "Wohin?" ". . . weiss nicht;" "Warum?" . . . weiss nicht...
...struggle for control of T.W.A. has been so rough and bitter that friends of Jack Frye thought he would surely look for a nice easy job after he quit as T.W.A.'s president. But this week Frye was elected board chairman of General Aniline & Film Corp., now controlled by the Office of Alien Property Custodian. And G.A.F. is involved in a squabble that makes T.W.A.'s look like a simple game of hopscotch...
Listeners' councils, voluntary censorship by the industry itself, the setting up of FM stations by disinterested groups, and FCC regulation, are finding that a fight against 90 millions is rough going. But certain it is that radio is one medium that need not yet be written off the books as lost to the Philistines...