Word: sooners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fishing lines they had aboard. There'll be driftwood to make a fire. . . ." When this failed to cheer Mrs. Noonan, Mr. Putnam snapped: "It's this way. Bee. One of two things have happened. Either they were killed outright-and that must come to all of us sooner or later-or they are alive and will be picked up. Keep your chin up. Bee." Mrs. Noonan presently collapsed...
...Ernest Palmer, for ten years special counsel to the Chicago Board of Underwriters. Dry-witted, poker-faced Mr. Palmer has been assistant attorney for the U. S. Department of the Interior in 1912, assistant general counsel to the National Board of Fire Underwriters from 1913 to 1923. No sooner had he taken office than he asserted his long-held opinion that Illinois insurance laws were a hodgepodge mostly written in 1869 and the only thing to do with them was to clean them all off the statute books. After two years' work a code stringent enough to suit Director...
...began to kick me in the stomach. When I would protect my side they would kick my head. One of the attackers would say, 'That is enough let him go.' Then they would pick me up'and stand me on my feet, but I was no sooner on my feet than they would knock me down again. This went on about five times. They let me lie there for a while. . . . Every once in a while someone would grind his heel into me. They pulled my legs apart and kicked me in the scrotum...
...sooner had trading ended in May contracts than speculative attention shifted to July and September contracts, both of which carried on the corn boom by spurting the full 4?-per-bu. limit allowed in one session. No matter how tall the corn grows this year, the 1937 crop will not start to market until October. July corn got above as the high as $1.25 per bu., nearly 10?above the same wheat delivery. And the terrific demand for grain in hand for settlement of May contracts continued to be visible in a 13?to 14? premium on cash corn...
...exigency is carefully provided for and in which the goal is not better conditions for the working men but increased war-chests and amplified political power--these strikes are supremely dangerous, flagrantly illegal in every sense and potential tinder-boxes for they will result in a desperate industrial war sooner or later. The Ford Company from the first day of the depression maintained its policy of exceptionally high wages for all, fairness toward all employees and better working and living conditions than has ever been seen in the history of industry. The Ford Company cannot be accused of discrimination, oppression...