Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solution of the problem is simpler than the smoke screen of mutual hate and intolerance implies. The companies should allow the unions the control they want in the hiring halls, agreeing to employ union labor without threat of "scabs" and strike breakers. Labor in turn should permit the companies to reject men they consider unfit, maintain the traditional right of the marine owner to employ whomever he chooses. Thus employers could not lock out workers for reasons of prejudice or party, but would still control the calibre of the crews, on which safe conduct at sea so much depends. Agreements...
Leavitt & Pierce--this smoke shop has been the traditional gathering point of Harvard men for fifty years. No further comment is necessary...
...coming forward with its facts on President Roosevelt's second son. The Nye committee had spent months blackguarding the du Fonts, Britain's late George V, a handful of Latin American dignitaries, Woodrow Wilson and the House of Morgan. But not until last week did the press smoke out of its files a two-year-old secret about Elliott Roosevelt's scheme to sell airplanes to Russia. Even then, Chairman Nye, one of the Senate's smartest hands at investigation publicity, loudly deplored the disclosure as "an attempt to smear the President" and as "not designed...
...California. In Bandon, where practically all buildings were razed, a dozen bodies were recovered. One man was killed clearing wreckage, some 30 others were missing. Of the 5,000 firefighters in the woods, four were killed by falling trees. Army and WPA trucks, headlights aglow in the pall of smoke, nosed into the stricken region bearing food and portable shelter...
...most unusual he has written, Sherwood Anderson added the portrait of an active, wilful, adventurous girl to his gallery. Although it has its share of shadowy eccentrics-including one young fellow who wants to be a horse-it differs from Anderson's previous works in its melodramatic fire & smoke, since it is a tale of moonshiners, murders, narrow escapes and successful crimes...