Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Later that afternoon the doors of the banquet hall were thrown open. The A. F. of L.'s 13 vice presidents filed out, newshawks and cinemen filed in. When everything was set President Green read the council's decision. Suspension for ten C. I. O. unions within 30 days, unless they abandon their organization.* Said Mr. Green...
...Benjamin's organization of radical-minded unemployed which had been staging intermittent "hunger marches" on the U. S. Capitol ever since 1931. Three weeks later, members of this new and larger Workers Alliance invaded Trenton, N. J., occupied the State House, jeered the Legislature with abandon, were finally thrown out by police for their bad manners (TIME, May 4). Last week's Harrisburg extravaganza was on a pattern rapidly becoming standard practice whenever a State Legislature stalls on jobless relief...
Would William Woodward's Granville, favorite at 2-to-1, have speed and courage enough to repeat the victories of his sire, Gallant Fox, and Omaha, by the same sire? Or would bad racing luck-his jockey was thrown at the start of the Kentucky Derby; Bold Venture beat him by a nose in the Preakness-cost him this race too? Ten horses, bunched in a feathery cloud of dust, swung into the last turn, and Jockey Jimmy Stout on Granville made his bid. Granville caught the leader, John Hay Whitney's Mr. Bones. Then down the stretch...
...State of Missouri could blow hot by claiming that its black and white colleges were equal, blow cold by allowing its University to reject Lincoln credits. That Lincoln was itself a "University" they denied, recalling that the $500,000 granted it to set up graduate schools had been thrown out as unconstitutional by Missouri's Supreme Court...
...mill. By last September every gate was locked, every worker on the street. As dust gathered on Amoskeag's 20,000 cotton looms, the citizens of Manchester endured a bad winter, a cheerless spring. Amoskeag workers who had been getting $13 a week from the mills were thrown on relief at $2 per week with $1 more for each family...