Word: tearful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supplement issued by the labor-loving New Republic, Democratic Boss Edward J. Flynn issued a provocative statement on Willkie and Labor. Highlights: that Mr. Willkie's Georgia Power Co. spent $31,000 on labor spies from Pinkerton's; that Mr. Willkie's Central Illinois Light bought tear-gas guns and shells; that no fewer than three of the Willkie companies were clients of the biggest espionage agency devoted solely to industrial work. Mr. Flynn also charged that Consumers Power Co. and Alabama Power Co., both Commonwealth & Southern subsidiaries, were found guilty by NLRB "of interfering with...
Berlin dwellers had no specially constructed air-raid shelters. They had been told it would be enough to go to a rein forced room in their basements, or just stay indoors while anti-aircraft guns, with which Berlin apartment houses and office buildings ostentatiously bristled, would tear to bits any Britisher who dared the Reich's might...
...Popular, CTM newspaper. Two were killed. Other clashes occurred near the Post Office (four dead) and in Santo Domingo Garden (two dead). So it went until 2 o'clock when, election or no election, Mexicans took their siestas. At 4:30 the shooting began again. Bombs, tear gas, machine guns were brought into play. Federal troops, cavalry, police did their share of killing. Early and decidedly incomplete return: 48 dead, 400 wounded...
...after the keynote that wasn't quite the keynote came Herbert Hoover. Even now the delegates came with solemn hope they would get a chance to tear up their chairs and set fire to their hats. They were more than willing to give him the benefit of all their doubts; they were eager to hear him demolish the New Deal; they were even more eager to cheer some challenging declaration of faith. But inflexible Mr. Hoover mushmouthed his delivery; the clear, hot words of his finest address got lost (as always) deep in his bulldog chops. He stood there...
Last week, in Columbus, Ohio State faculty members gave a banquet for old Dr. Korell, presented his portrait to the medical school. The old country doctor smiled, ate the dinner, stammered a few words of thanks, wiped away a tear, went home to putter around his garden...