Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clerk called the roll after a day of historic debate, the first woman Representative in U. S. history, and then the only woman in Congress, Montana's Jeannette Rankin, sat silent in her seat instead of voting. Before the second roll call, Uncle Joe Cannon went to her side, begged her, as the Representative of U. S. womanhood, to cast her decision one way or the other. On the second roll call, Representative Rankin, with tears in her eyes, stood up to say: "I want to stand by my country but I cannot vote for War. I vote...
...basic provisions of the old contract were retained-seniority, paid vacations, a basic $5 a day, a 4O-hour week with time-and-a-half for overtime. But instead of running for a full year, the new contract may be reopened on ten days' notice by either side, and if no agreement is reached within the next 20 days, the contract lapses. In effect, this means that U. S. Steel may, at any time, ask the union to accept a wage cut, and if the union does not accept, proceed to put the wage cut into effect. Under...
...picture is a repetition of the old story of how law and order gradually conquered the bad lands. Lewis Stone plays his role as a corrupt judge of the old regime with great understanding, and Dennis O'Keefe as the tight-lipped federal deputy is also on the side of Virtue, but Mr. Beery's personality dominates the picture, and when he is finally and symbolically arrested, a pang of remorse sweeps over the audience...
...rewrite history in the interests of drama, and drama it surely is which the film provides once the fateful lantern is upset. Streets are mobbed with frantic people; flames roar through the tightly-packed slums, ignite a gas tower, stampede the stock yards, and drive the whole South side into the Chicago River...
...native of France, the Crimson coach, who still talks with a slight accent related yesterday how he won his first competition 40 years ago in Paris. Coming to this country in 1909, he worked in New York, fencing on the side for the N. Y. Amateur Fencing Club...