Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sometimes he admits losing his temper ("We have lost our tempers to the point of neurasthenia. . . ."), sometimes he does it before your eyes: "Do not bother me about leaflets: I am not a machine and cannot work in the present disgraceful situation. . . . For Christ's sake do understand. . . . Unforgivable and shameful . . . simply a disgrace and death to the cause! . . . Yet here you are busy with the devil knows what kind of dirty business! ... If we don't break with the Central Committee and with the Council, then we shall only be worthy of being spat at." When...
David Terry stood 6 ft. 3 in., weighed 220 lb., had a temper to match. Kentucky-born in 1823, he drifted down to Stephen Austin's colony in Mexican Texas, enlisted in the war for Lone Star independence at 13. Later he practiced law in Houston, and Galveston, fought with the Texas Rangers against Mexico, rushed to California in '49, set up a law office in Stockton. The Know Nothings put him in the State Supreme Court in 1855, but that did not keep him from resting in jail next year while the San Francisco Vigilantes waited...
...back down. He offered to settle for sole recognition of his union in the 20 G. M. plants that were closed by strikers. The G. M. spokesmen were variously reported as offering to give him what he wanted in six plants, and in none. As John Lewis' temper wore thin, too, only three bonds held the negotiators together. One was President Roosevelt's insistence on an agreement, delivered in daily telephone calls to Governor Murphy. Another was fear of the public wrath which would fall on whichever side precipitated a breakup. The third was fear of the violence...
...Lewis and other strike leaders were truculently abused. Leaders of the Alliance were in turn roundly rebuked by Governor Murphy for their "interference." In Detroit, five picketers were injured in a scuffle with police when some officials tried to enter the closed Cadillac plant. In Saginaw, where anti-strike temper was described as "simply murderous," a gang ran six strike organizers out of town. As four of the organizers were proceeding to Flint under police escort, an automobile swerved into their path, forced their speeding taxicab off the road into a telephone pole, seriously injuring all four. In Anderson...
Divorced. James Andrew Moffett, 50, vice president of Standard Oil Co. of California, onetime (1934-35) Federal Housing Administrator; by Mrs. Adeline Moran ("Kim") Moffett; in Miami, Fla. Grounds: extreme cruelty, his "ungovernable temper...