Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convention straight from the heat of the mills. Nearly half of them were old company union men who had helped lead their organizations into C. I. O. Daily for four days they packed themselves into the smoke-blue auditorium of Islam Grotto in Pittsburgh's slummy North Side, across the Allegheny River from the Golden Triangle. That the S. W. O. C. had picked up a trick or two from Fascist and Communist propagandists was evident from the huge posters of brawny steelworkers, the heroic pictures of Phil Murray and Leader Lewis. Conspicuously dangling by the neck...
Grandfather with an East Side Background, a thin-faced, sallow figure with resentful eyes, in a black Sunday suit and derby, angled against a sad line of shops, a huckster, a synagogue...
...witness the triumphal Japanese entry. The departing gunboat put off a motor sampan, which returned to pick them up. Thankful for their rescue and still a little worried for the safety of their friends they left behind, Mayell and Alley were, a few minutes later, climbing up the side of the U. S. S. Panay...
Gaunt Old Dr. Francis Everett ("The Plan") Townsend told Detroit's Recorder's Court Judge Edward J. Jeffries a joke: "The President went fishing once and forgot his bait. He looked over the side of the boat, cleared his throat, and said: 'My friends-.' A thousand suckers stuck their heads out of the water...
...Civil War broke out, Manuel Chaves Nogales, author of Juan Belmonte, remained as editor of a Loyalist newspaper in Madrid, although he protested that he "lacked revolutionary spirit," disapproved of both proletarian and fascist dictatorships. After four months, having "accrued enough merits to deserve to be shot by either side," he fled to France, declaring he could have no dealings with murderers "even though in our times this is a luxury that few can afford...