Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wild reports from Apia. The Clipper was safe in Apia harbor. She was down safe on the sea near Tutuila. Only the high mountains were keeping her signals from coming through. More alarmingly, a native was said to have reported he had seen fire in the sky and smoke on the water off Samoa. And then the Avocet, following streaks of oil floating on the long ocean swells, came upon what was left of the $320,000 Samoan Clipper 14 miles northwest of Pago Pago-a drawer, pieces of a coat, pages of the engineering log, part of the navigating...
...only warrior who emerged from the smoke of the Great Supreme Court Battle of 1937 in better shape than before was spry old Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter, 78. For the judicial code was amended to allow Justices of the Supreme Court, instead of resigning, to retire with full pay ($20,000 a year) guaranteed for life. Justice Van Devanter, who for two years had wanted to retire, seized the opportunity...
...delegates from Amalgamated lodges. Four out of five delegates went to the 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...
...price of cotton. But the most notable feature of his trip was its hardships: he was seasick on the Lancashire going South ("I would not wish an enemy's dog a sorer punishment than this deadly seasickness"), exasperated by the slowness of railroads as well as by the smoke in cars that threatened to "transfer us into bacon," frightened by the possibility that the train would go off the track or a rail come through the floor of the car. On steamers he was afraid of fire. He was relieved when he got into stage-coaches...
...ring while the grooms shook up the stalls. On Sundays he read funny papers to an old Negro jockey named Tom Connors, wrote letters for him to his girls. It was several years before young Townsend learned why the old Negro used to line his room with newspapers and smoke a sweet-smelling pipe before he rode a race. Tom was a hophead...