Word: signal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with his own bag of tricks, another had chosen the same device. The New York Daily News man carried a small overnight bag containing a short-wave transmitter. As the jury entered the courtroom, the News man stealthily touched his radio button four times-the News's code signal for jury-entry. That was the signal that flashed from courtroom to cupola to press-rooms and microphones...
...this letter that served as the "cease firing" signal to the fortnight's affray. Obviously the President could not afford to fall out irrevocably with organized labor. Obviously organized labor neither dared nor desired to affront the man in the White House. So pious "Bill" Green summoned the reporters, told them: "Roosevelt is our hope and our strength. We want to go over to the White House and discuss all Labor problems and show our faith...
...urging that the engineer of the overtaking train be "drastically punished" (i. e. shot), the government newsorgan Izvestia conjectured that he had run past a stop signal to earn a bonus for being on time, added, "During 1934 there have been 63 proven instances of engineers passing closed semaphores on the Moscow-Leningrad line to earn such premiums...
Only immediate result was retirement from the East Texas fields of the Federal Tender Board, which had executed President Roosevelt's unconstitutional ban on interstate shipments of hot oil. Its retirement, however, was by no means the signal for reopening every secret valve and bypass. A stronger Texas hot oil law went into action on Christmas Day, and despite the thuggery, bribery, judicial connivance and wholesale corruption that taint most oil operations in the East Texas fields, State control appeared to be working for once...
...about 300 gathered in the early morning before the prison yard to watch the flagstaff. Many were praying. Two unarmed policemen with their thumbs stuck purposefully in their belts kept the crowd in order. At 9 o'clock a black flag broke out on the staff. By that signal spectators knew that, despite a blizzard of petitions to the Lord Mayor of Hull, to the Home Secretary, to King George himself, Mrs. Ethel Lille Major had died on the gallows for poisoning her truckdriver husband, first woman to be executed in England in eight years...