Word: steers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legal and extra-legal baitings, got it electrical and water systems, a printing plant and the dairy in which the cows are now fed on the un-Marxian principle of "to each according to what she produces." Miss Moskowitz, during the last of her twelve years at Commonwealth, helped steer its policies away from doctrinaire paths, towards the more practical purpose of training people for trade union organizing. Last month "Chucky" Moskowitz left Commonwealth, to live and work in St. Louis with her husband, now a teacher for the Radio & Electrical Workers' Union. Last week Commonwealth...
...public many a million, landed Kings Bishirgian & Howeson in jail and London's pepper market in thorough disrepute (TIME, Feb. 18, 1935 & March 2, 1936). This scandal combined last year with a freight war (making it cheaper to ship pepper to the U. S. than to Europe) to steer many pepper consignments to New York instead of London. For years the world's largest pepper user (30%), the U. S. then for the first time displaced England as a pepper mart. This led logically to last week's establishment of pepper trading on the busy floor...
...newsitem under Miscellany re the Chicago search for ''hors d'oeuvres" synonyms interested me since every Chinese feast has a prefix of small variety dishes which one tries artfully to steer shy of. The only Chinese name for them that I can find would translate something like "Saucermites," "Midgettes,"-literally "tiny plates." Perhaps this nation's master chefs tried to find a name too, in former centuries, and finally showed the good judgment of giving the simple name they chose, letting the eater form his own opinion...
...they assayed his advice, readers guessed: that Pressagent Michelson was having some sly fun with his old enemies, that the wrinkled old battler genuinely longed to match his wits once more with a worthy opponent, or that "Charley the Mike," with Michiavellian cunning, was deliberately attempting to steer the tottering Elephant over a precipice...
Since it was Strong Man Flores da Cunha, a doughty soldier who can tie a steer singlehanded, who helped boost his friend into the Presidential Palace in 1930, Strong Man Vargas knew he had better act quickly. Back to Porto Alegre flashed a Presidential order relieving Governor Flores da Cunha of his responsibilities as executor of the "state of war" in Rio Grande do Sul, handing them over to General Emilio Lucio Esteves, the State's Federal military commandant. This order in effect gave General Esteves a free hand with 17,000 Federal troops against anything General Flores...