Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Caught flatfooted at the end of June by threat of a soft coal strike on July i, the President did not allow himself to be surprised a second time. Six days before the postponed strike was due again, he wrote to miners and operators asking them to postpone the strike a fourth time to Sept. 16. Graciously miners and operators accepted his "command," hoping for passage in the meantime of the Guffey Coal bill...
...Moscow last week was held the first Carnival permitted by earnest Bolsheviks since the Revolution of 1917. With returning bourgeois gaiety, 100,000 Russians were encouraged to enjoy a madcap masked revel which lasted nearly all night in the Park of Culture & Rest, the State supplying masks and soft drinks, with all alcoholic tipples barred. Since the habit of censorship has become ingrained under Stalin, arriving revelers were inspected at the gates by censors who said that their purpose was "to keep out joy killers." Barred was a Russian who arrived in a tight black suit painted to make...
Crash! The motor car of the Chancellor of Austria and Frau Schuschnigg hurtled into a tree near Linz last week. She was instantly killed, her neck broken. He was flung on soft earth, missing a kilometer stone by a finger's length. The portly Schuschnigg nurse rolled over & over, clutching safely to her breast the Chancellor's 9-year-old son Kurt...
...intention to have his labor bills passed no matter how "reasonable"' might be the doubt of their Constitutionality. There is such doubt about the Labor Disputes Bill. There is a lot more doubt about the Guffey Coal Bill which, in fact, amounts to NRA's Soft Coal Code being re-enacted into law although the Supreme Court ruled that, and all other codes, unconstitutional. Attorney General Cummings refused to furnish the Ways & Means Committee with a brief for its Constitutionality and, according to Washington talk, flatly told the President that the measure would never get by the Supreme...
...race, in which Owens was not second but third, a stride behind Negro Ralph Metcalfe, was run in 10.2 sec., which would have been a world's record except for a soft following breeze. In the broad jump Peacock cleared 26 ft. 3 in., ? in. better than the currently accepted world's record and ¾ in. better than Owens' best last week, but 5¼ in. short of the record Owens set last...