Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months, after that only through arbitration. No editorial salaries can be lowered for one year, but neither can the editorial men strike during that period. The 286 men laid off in a Levi economy slash during the past six months must be given preference when any rehiring is done. Though it did not win a closed shop, the Guild, by winning its first Chicago contract, sunk a deep wedge in the stiff-backed opposition from Chicago publishers...
...almost single-handed crusade which reopened the reeking Teapot Dome scandal. Paul Anderson began to think increasingly of late that his endless exploits had also earned him an independence no other Washington correspondent enjoys. The disciplinarian Post-Dispatch disagreed, so the result of his frequent protracted absences was inevitable, though long delayed. Tedious hours of poring over the finely printed technical briefs in the Madison, Wis. oil case overtaxed Paul Anderson's eyes last week, he said, and he had to remain in a dark room three days. Post-Dispatch Managing Editor Oliver Kirby ("O. K.") Bovard phoned from...
Adviser William Jett Lauck, has been something less than successful. Unable for eight months to agree on recommendations, it finally issued a series of reports, most of which failed to make headlines though they did establish pretty thoroughly the basic troubles besetting hard coal. Among them...
...Though it has no ghost, Boundary Against Night has almost everything else- spies, detectives, a conspiracy hatched after dark in a deserted church; 3 mad philosopher who sees the coming of complete moral darkness over the earth; a blind hero; a section devoted to Boston during the police strike (which appears from this account a bigger show than the French Revolution) ; a mass of characters, largely Irish, drawn about equally from the police and the underworld; returned soldiers, as embittered as they are eloquent; three suicides, a rape, a robbery and a final thundering climax in which a crazy policeman...
Indifference was Rogers altitude, though. "It didn't bother me at all," be said. "I just sat down to a good night's study...