Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recognize United Automobile Workers as sole representative of all its employes. After the second day the opposing groups rarely saw each other, the Labor leaders remaining in Judge Murphy's office while the G. M. officials huddled around a telephone in the jury room. When they emerged to stretch their legs in the courtroom at the same time, Capital and Labor remained in opposite corners...
...first place that John Jeremiah Pelley got to was Anna, Ill., where his father, an Irish immigrant, had settled as a contractor after a stretch in the Confederate Army. Son John hustled baggage in Anna's Illinois Central depot during summer vacations, taught school when he was 18, spent a few months at the University of Illinois in 1899. The summers in the Anna depot destined John Pelley for railroading. Only twice has he remained in one railroad job as long as five years-once as an I. C. superintendent in Fulton, Ky., and once as president...
Interest will center around the Stubbs' sextet who will be attempting to stretch its victory string, started after a defeat at the Big Green's hands just a year ago, to sixteen straight wins. Betting odds still favor the Crimson pucksters, but the home team is given a better than fighting chance to reverse that decision because of their fine showing at the Boston Garden last months when Captain Ford saved the Harvard cause with two markers in the last period...
...during the week were in the "Harvard Crimson" building. The "Harvard Crimson" is the official daily newspaper of the University and provides one of the most amusing contrasts to Cambridge I met with. To start with, the idea of a daily newspaper run (and bought) by undergraduates is a stretch of imagination for anyone with any knowledge of the way Cambridge papers work. Then in place of the single room, littered table and crate of beer from which the soul of Cambridge flows to an avaricious printer, there is a complete building with its own press, private rooms for about...
Twice during this stretch of wins the Harvard score has run into double figures, both last year when it defeated the Big Green 10-0 and in the final game of the season when it drubbed Yale...