Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miami, Bill Green desperately tried to make up his mind whether to rush to Washington to make a personal defense. If the miners kick him out, he will be left with an honorary card given him as a one-finger piano virtuoso by the Chicago Musicians Union. That is not enough to hold down the presidency of the A. F. of L., and he will have to join the Progressive Miners of America, which is flat on its back with 36 members sentenced to jail and a $117,000 fine hanging over its head (TIME...
Humane but human, Director Amundsen watched 15 minutes before he nudged Foye Thompson, who strolled to a window, signaled four detectives waiting outside. With a rush, Amundsen & men separated the dogs and arrested all present. The garage operator and dog owners were liable under State law to $1,100 fine or a year in jail or both; the watchers were released on bond. At week's end, after tender care by Missouri Humane Society's Veterinarian Carl Brenner, both dogs were in fine fettle, but were being held for probable asphyxiation-that they might never have to fight...
...years old to day I think you might send me Money so I could go the Fair at Chicago in about two weeks befor the fall rush comes. It would only cost about 200.00/100 dollars. I can get Passes to Chicago and return let me Know as soon as you can so I can get redy I want to seee the Fair so bad, please let me go. Your affectson...
...pins or whatever. . . . Well, what kind of men does he get? Experts on statistics will tell you that a certain percentage are absolutely honest and want to work hard, another per cent will steal anything they can get away with, another group are malcontents, while another section are like Rush Holt, "natural-born hell-raisers." The first thing our owner knows, there is "labor trouble" in the plant and he wonders why. His foremen don't know and his employment experts don't know. So far, the only means discovered by industry is to have...
...bottles of wine belonging to Graziano Taite of Jersey City disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Graziano got very angry, and in the resultant brawl a giant Negro called "Smiling Joe" Thomas was stabbed in the heart. Smiling Joe, who is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 220 pounds, was rushed to a hospital at Kearny, N. J., where doctors cut through his chest wall, opened the pericardium or heart envelope so that the heart lay visibly beating before their eyes, and delicately extracted a three-inch piece of broken knife blade. They took care to let no blood rush...