Word: swarm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dixie Bee. It was midnight on the Wabash. Eight miles inland from the Indiana bank, 64 haggard non-union miners and one woman held the Dixie Bee coal mine, besieged by an invisible swarm of union pickets. For a day and a night and a day their rifles and revolvers had stood off hundreds, possibly thousands, of John L. Lewis' men, squatting in a cornfield, crouching behind a railroad embankment, sniping from a patch of woods. The barricaded tipple house was pockmarked with bullets. One sharpshooting picket had been drilled dead. Within the mine on burlap sacks lay four defenders...
Chairman James R. Garfield of the resolutions committee arrived from Washington to be besieged immediately by a swarm of newshawks. In the room at the Congress where his father received the choice which made him the 20th President, Chairman Garfield neatly dodged all reference to the President's Prohibition platform desire with an agility such as he once used when Secretary of the Interior in the Roosevelt "tennis Cabinet." He could not "speak for the President," but could speak for "responsible Republicans." He hurriedly added that Mr. Hoover was a responsible Republican...
...fine for contempt of court growing out of his refusal to return to the U. S. and testify. He also settled income tax irregularities for $3,670,000, but still pending against him were conspiracy charges for tax violations. Last week in Manhattan, George E. Holmes, one of his swarm of attorneys, flumped in the subway, was killed...
...TIME, May 16, in your article headed "Locusts," you quote the President of the U. S. as saying that the halls of Congress were ''haunted by a locust swarm of lobbyists" and then TIME remarks, ". . . active and successful lobbies which pay their legislative agents $10,000 or so per year to secure Congressional favors include the following. . . . Motorists. The American Automobile Association, whose special pleader is Alexander E. Johnson, failed to block a Senate increase in the automobile...
Startling indeed is TIME'S list of the "locust swarm of lobbyists," appearing in your May 16 issue...