Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...water for a sitdown, the two operators thus announced their strike by playing on the sound equipment a record prepared in advance, an idea originated by the business agent of Local 306 of the Motion Picture Machine Operators Union (A. F. of L.). Two other operators did the same thing in another Manhattan theatre (run by the same corporation) the same night. Their demands were met by 6 a. m. the following morning...
...week eavesdropping on the secretary's tapped telephone line. Choleric, ambitious Mayor S. Davis Wilson immediately exploded : "I challenge the Governor and his minions! . . . This is worse than Russia ... a despicable conspiracy ... to destroy me and my family! ... To think that the man responsible for this sort of thing wants to be President of the U. S.! . . . My God, this goes to the fundamentals of our Government! ... I want to announce here and now that I am a candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania...
...clubbing right away from the first who reached me, and I could not very well blame them. We had all been told the best thing to do would be to shoot ourselves if we ever came down behind the enemy's lines, because they said we surely would be tortured before we were killed...
...fine Iowa morning last week a country doctor saw a strange thing in the sky. It looked like two clusters of white grapes, floating along with the wind, with something resembling a bathtub, a coffin or a sweatbox dangling below. The doctor was on a confinement case so he did not stop to gawp...
...thing, it was the week of their annual blowout, the convention of the National Editorial Association, held this year in Detroit, where editors could see for themselves some of the scenes and characters of the year's biggest story, Insurgent Labor. Four hundred of N. E. A.'s 3,000 members arrived for a busy week of speechmaking and fun. Will Loomis of the La Grange 111. Citizen helped start things with the topic. "Where do we go from here?'" Then the editors were shown a cooking school film entitled The Bride Wakes Up and heard from...