Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George F. to speak up against brewing unionism, the businessmen who depend on E. J. pay rolls were going to speak up in his stead. The Board of Trade advised 18,500 E. J. workers to stay out of an A. F. of L. union which was trying to start in their midst. A. F. of L. Organizer Ben Berk promptly complained to the National Labor Relations Board that Endicott Johnson inspired the letter, thereby violating the Wagner Act. When George F.'s visiting friends presumably spoke for themselves last week, NLRB was still investigating Berk's complaint...
...daybreak Sheriff H. C. Hinton and a posse of eight with bloodhounds started looking for Negro Wilder McGowan, 24. A crowd of Wiggins men watched them start. Toward noon, while Sheriff Hinton and his men were looking for McGowan at the Ten-Mile sawmill where he used to work, the Wiggins town siren sounded. Sheriff Hinton knew what that meant. The mob had found McGowan sleeping under a truck at his grandmother's house. Afterold Mrs. N identified him, they just strung him up in the woods. They didn't shoot or burn his body...
...refusing to sell cinema rights of his plays (with the exception of two shorts: How He Lied to Her Husband, Arms and the Man), Bernard Shaw not only helped write the script for Pygmalion but agreed to let Producer Pascal film all his other plays. Producer Pascal will soon start work on Caesar and Cleopatra...
Baby Annabelle was taken to Children's Hospital, and found normal. "She has no concept of spoken words," said Miss Mason, "but she is apparently alert to sounds." Her education will proceed slowly, will start with associations between objects and words. Miss Mason hopes that within two years Annabelle will have her legs straightened, attend school like any other normal child...
...assembled in the prospective Palo Alto plant of Sunset, the Pacific Monthly, the battery will consist of two 64-page, two-color Cottrell presses and two Cottrell-McKee multicolor presses for four-color work, along with electrotyping, drying and binding equipment. Total cost: $250,000.* All of this will start rolling next month to print a magazine which has had to peg its circulation at around 200,000 since 1930 because there were not enough big presses west of the Rockies to print any more copies...