Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mass picketing which obstructed "or otherwise interfered" with entrance to a striking plant; 2) picketing which obstructed public highways or 3) picketing by people not directly involved in the strike. This was not precisely what Labor-loving Governor Murphy wanted but he pronounced the measure a long step toward industrial peace...
...this looked inexplicable to Western eyes lacking the historic focus of North China. Between 1931 and 1934 Japanese soldiers set up the genealogically ''legitimate heir" to the Throne of China as the Emperor of Manchukuo (see map), their puppet His Majesty Kang Te. The next logical step would be to seat this Manchu Emperor on the Dragon Throne of his ancestors at Peiping. To engineer such a coup, Japan sent to China her master schemer and spy, Major General Kenji Doihara who intrigued and bribed for the five North China provinces of Hopei, Chahar, Suiyuan, Shansi and Shantung...
...Florida, for $52,103 which she claimed was unjustly collected from her to pay her husband's back taxes after he was found guilty of tax evasion in 1931. Mrs. Capone said she was not responsible for her husband's taxes. When his ig-year-old step-daughter Dorothy returned to his Salt Lake City house at midnight, 80-year-old Hiram Dempsey and an unidentified companion appeared in the darkness, ordered her escort off the premises. When Dorothy Dempsey began to cry, 41-year-old Mrs. Dempsey and her parents, Mr. & Mrs. John T. Lythgoe, who live...
...Ball. Today The Chesapeake Corp. owns about 35.5% of the stock of Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., and Alleghany owns 71% of the stock of The Chesapeake Corp. After the merger new Chesapeake Corp. will be the holding company for all the railroad properties, only one step removed from the rails...
...subscribers, in a special letter of his Babson's Reports, that U. S. churches have accumulated "useless customs and cobwebs"? Had he further remarked that the German Government in emphasizing a creed based on "four simple but vital foundations" (Faith, Blood, Sacrifice, Love) "may be taking a forward step which our churches should have taken long...