Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When reporters later discovered Messrs. Bennett & Martin lunching together in a Ford dining room, the two stuck to their story that the meeting "just happened." Mr. Martin said he had heard that Harry Bennett would never receive Homer Martin, had called to find out whether that was so, and was "greeted very cordially." Mr. Ford "just happened" to drop in on his daily rounds. Messrs, Bennett and Martin talked mostly about the 32-hour week, which U.A.W. was trying to sell to Chrysler, General Motors and other automakers as a stimulus to re-employment...
There is no denying that Mr. Hicks stuck out his head in representing the New Masses last week. Although many students, particularly those in the social sciences, favor the policy of encouraging instructors to participate in outside affairs, because it gives nourishment of a practical kind to their teaching, it is apparent that for the sake of Harvard such men must recognize a limit to their actions. They are in the same position as the President of the United States, who is always regarded as President whether he is speaking in behalf of the Democratic Party or the Warm Springs...
...weight dropped to 92 lbs., and four months ago he was forced to take a prolonged rest cure at Hot Springs, Va. Back in Washington last week, Ambassador Saito, whose wife likens him to a tireless, leaping carp, was reported to have received an urgent Tokyo cable. Premier Konoye, stuck to find a Foreign Minister when General Kazushige Ugaki suddenly quit fortnight ago, requested Hiroshi Saito to take the post. General Ugaki. long on the outs with an army clique determined to add all China to Japan's control, re-signed when complete charge of the China policy...
...mortgage on the plantation). On the home green of Long Island's Salisbury Country Club at 10:30 one evening, under the eerie glare of magnesium flares, Golfer Ferebee completed his two-a-day transcontinental jaunt. For four days, while the majority of U. S. golfers stuck to their radios and stockbrokers stuck to their tickers, Broker Ferebee had stuck to his golf ball-in Los Angeles and Phoenix, Kansas City and St. Louis, Milwaukee and Chicago, Philadelphia and New York. He had traveled 3,000 miles by plane, had tramped 155 miles on foot, had taken...
Chief problem in Centerville is poor dirt roads, which keep a traveling library away, make newspapers and mail late, compel farmers to do their own carrying to market. When Farmer Hand, trucking strawberries, gets stuck in the mud and his strawberries spoil, Centerville's people decide to build a concrete road. Crotchety old Farmer Banks (who is unpopular among Centerville's children because he chases swimmers from his creek) stalls progress by refusing to let his barn be moved out of the way, but finally gives in to avoid accidents at a sharp turn in the road near...