Word: spedding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Readers Forster & Baer may thank the U. S. Post Office department, which received the issue on April 19 in Chicago, sped it to a fast boat. Sailing dates do not permit this schedule every week...
...they had worked six days a week, ten hours a day for wages of 57?, 98?, $1.25 and $2.50. Also they told of "week end trips to New York with their bosses" which, it was understood, were compulsory on pain of losing their jobs. Leaving Northampton. Mrs. Pinchot sped to nearby Allentown where a similar strike was in progress at the Morris Freezer shirt factory. Again Picket Pinchot. waving her hat to encourage her followers, led a band round & round the plant. The walls did not fall but Morris Freezer appeared, invited Mrs. Pinchot inside to meet some...
...Senator Thomas was not to get his inflation bill through without any opposition at all. Few days before, Ogden Livingston Mills had sped back to Washington from California and the company of the man who had made him Secretary of the Treasury. At his command the Republican Old Guard in Congress closed their ragged ranks and prepared to give battle for the first time since March...
...President Roosevelt had some one else picked for Italy. Mayor Curley went back to Boston, took to his bed with a cold. The President last week announced his appointment as Ambassador to Poland. Two days later Mayor Curley leaped out of bed, sped to Washington and with a rhetorical flourish that sounded almost sarcastic told the President he was "eternally grateful" for the offer of the Warsaw post but he would have to decline it. His reason: "The clear call of duty . . . that I remain in America [and Boston] . . . cannot be disregarded...
...huge young man with a pale face and staring eyes went back upstairs alone. There were shots in Dr. Bell's bedroom. A porter, rushing up in his green apron, was shot through the hip. Dr. Bell was dead, his roommate Major Hell severely wounded. The Nazis sped away...