Word: said
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decided to think of ourselves as a combat unit," said Mr. Miller, "fighting together against unemployment and not as 24 beaten, miserable and helpless railroad clerks." Each damned clerk would try first "to find or create a job for himself," then try "to find or create a job for 23 others." Last week Legionnaires Miller and Carr reported results: eight jobs found, two in sight. Pennsy's President Martin Clement heard about the Legion, praised the clerks' initiative, saw that several (including Mr. Miller) got their old jobs back...
...members of the Orleans Parish Grand Jury against the probity of District Attorney Charles A. Byrne. Mr. Byrne has supposedly been aiding the jury in a probe of the tangled corruption of Parish affairs throughout the State. Meantime pressure was brought-apparently by Earl Long-on Byrne to resign. Said Byrne: "There is no power or influence that can make me resign." Eighteen hours later he resigned, giving the familiar Louisiana excuse of "ill health...
Last week Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring* announced the results of the tests: the Army will have the new tailoring, trousers and all, but will stay in olive drab. "For all-weather, all-year-round wear," said Mr. Woodring, who wore khaki in the A. E. F., "and for all types of terrain, the olive drab color proved far superior to slate blue so far as camouflage was concerned...
...rumpled, disgruntled ex-candidate for President, Nicholas Dozenberg, alias George Morris, better known as Earl Browder, 48-year-old Communist leader. Indicted on a passport-fraud charge, he had already spent one night in the detention pen. Hester Huntington had met him for the first time the day before. Said she: "I did it on principle." Grateful Mr. Browder walked out of jail to await trial...
...foreseen that the Allies would fight. He had been "convinced that the use of force on one side would be answered by recourse to arms on the other." More important, devout Catholic that he is, he knew which side he was for, and, unlike his predecessors during War I, said...