Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week Big Ed was trammeled and sad. In fact, he was kidnaped. While Chicago's press whooped with an enthusiasm mislaid since the Capone era, brother George Jones flew in from Mexico to round up a reported $250,000 in ransom money. Automatically, city officials began another cleanup of unprotected policy peddlers. From the North Shore to Bronzeville, the Negro heartland, the kidnaping was poolroom talk...
...Round a teakwood table, in the guarded secrecy of a Chiefs-of-Staff strategy conference, the Congress and Moslem League leaders talked with the three-man British Cabinet delegation, trying to work out a compromise for the future government of India. The Viceroy's Executive Council (including its four British members) offered to resign to clear the way for an interim government. Hindu Nehru got the green light to become the next Congress Party president, replacing Moslem Azad, whom Jinnah bitterly regards as a traitor to Islam...
...industrial unions, but there were still plenty of unbranded mavericks on the range. James Hoffa, chief of Michigan's 13,000 A.F.L. teamsters, prepared a new corral: a local of the teamsters' subsidiary Retail Clerks' Union. Then, walking softly, he set out to round up a herd whose grazing habits he had been studying all during the war-Detroit's 6,400 small, independent grocers, meat dealers and their clerks...
...limbered his lariat Hoffa went on talking soothingly. It had cost a fellow teamster chieftain, Dave Beck, endless time, abuse and trouble to round up Seattle's merchants, laundries and dry cleaners, back in the '30s. And Hoffa had learned plenty about trouble himself under the tutorship of Detroit's tough Bert Brennan-a teamster boss he had lately outstripped. Hoffa hoped to prevent a stampede, shoo Detroit's 6,400 into the corral in a body and close the gate as softly as possible...
...McCutcheon took a round-the-trip, bumped into the Spanish War, was with Dewey at Manila Bay, moved on to sketch the Boer War for the folks jack home. Between junkets in 1903, he switched to the Tribune. He hunted in Africa with Carl Akeley and Teddy Roosevelt, covered both sides in World War I, always saw to it that his contracts called for long vacations. That gave him spare ime to write books, lend an encouraging land to youngsters like Milton (Terry and the Pirates) Caniff...