Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that railways are indisputably engaged in interstate commerce and hence subject to Congressional regulation-kept Supreme Court endorsement of it from being more than a shadowy clue to the Court's forthcoming decision on the Wagner Act. Well hedged by its qualifying clause was Mr. Justice Stone's remark: "The peaceable settlement of labor controversies, especially where they may seriously impair the ability of an interstate rail carrier to perform its service to the public, is a matter of public concern...
...behave a good deal like the amiable and manly V. M. I. officers and guards of Brother Rat (TIME, Dec. 28). But Frank Wilson (Charles Jordan) and Scappa (Maurice Burke) are nobody's angels. Frank has murdered a man in a stickup with a gun he got Johnny Stone (John Raby) to steal from his sister's sweetheart, a Holmes patrolman. Frank seems pretty smart to Johnny when he gets the two of them sent up for three years for a $10 robbery so they can hide out until the trouble blows over. But Johnny begins to crack...
...studio is devoted entirely to easels, paint brushes, and 20th Century "nonfigurative" sculpture and paintings, including some of Artist Gallatin's recent works. Surrounded by this welter of modern art, there appears a strange blob of fused glass, carefully mounted on a square pedestal of lustrous black stone. "They're saucers," explains Artist Gallatin, "melted in a fire. I found them in the ruins of a summer hotel in Lenox, Mass. The form is most suggestive...
...streets with furious abandon, screaming, writhing, foaming at the mouth. The mania spread from city to city, new victims being inspired by sight of wandering sufferers, until most of Central and Northern Europe was a howling, leaping pandemonium. Uncontrollable, the dancers heeded no barriers, dashed out their brains against stone walls, pranced off bridges. Those caught in time were turned over to priests for lifting of curses, casting out of demons...
...Atlanta, "Ajax," a quarter-ton stone lion marking an apartment driveway entrance, mysteriously disappeared, three nights later reappeared at its post with its nose daubed red, a sign hung around its neck: "Boy! What a party! And was I drunk...