Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...militant Wet is represented by such Senators as Maryland's Tydings, Wisconsin's Elaine, such Congressmen as New York's LaGuardia, Michigan's Clancy. Pennsylvania's Congressman James Montgomery Beck typifies the Constitutional Wet who often subordinates his legal convictions to party loyalty. Silent Wets biding their time to strike a blow are Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth, Connecticut's Senator Bingham, Pennsylvania's Congressman Graham. New York's Senator Copeland represents the Wet from political expedience who is at heart a Dry. Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York personifies the long-time weasler who slips softly into...
...stock on its mining list. Last week the San Francisco Mining Exchange celebrated its 68th birthday the day the New York Mining Exchange opened. But seldom now do flurries cause great changes in its present stocks which include Carrie, Goldhill, Pony Meadows, Uncle Sam, White Caps, Lucky Strike, Golconda...
...December 1928, Ivar Kreuger's $350,000,000 Swedish Match Trust served formal notice upon Diamond that the agreement would not be extended. Yet the approach of the actual termination has made more vivid the question of who will soon be supplying the U. S. with strike-on-the-box matches.* Diamond has made a few, hints it may make more under favorable conditions. Herr Kreuger in his annual report spoke of planning to make, matches in the U. S. Yet no definite move has taken place...
...Little known outside the U. S. are the large strike-anywhere matches...
...roseate paradise, which betrayed the artistic aspiration of the nouvenu riche. Then he tapped the ashes reflectively on the white arch and set his alarm clock for an early rising hour in order that he might enjoy his soft boiled eggs in the dining room at breakfast, before the strike of nine sounded the liberation of the chickens from their daily toil...