Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started at the bottom as precinct worker and pollbook carrier in his father's Tenth Ward. An apt pupil, he was ready to take over the ward when his father died in 1929. That year Young Jim's training for the succession began in earnest. Beginning to tire of 500 conferences per day, Big Boss Tom kept his nephew at his elbow, left him holding the reins when he went off vacationing. Running against the son of another famed Democrat, Bennett Champ Clark, Young Jim was elected president of Missouri's Young Democrats.* The heir-apparent...
...clean, well-ventilated, scientifically lighted and entirely lacking in the sound & fury of, say, a steel mill. The speed of assembly and subassembly lines is not that pictured by Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times. Chief complaint is not the monotony of putting a washer on a bolt or a tire on a wheel eight hours on end but a peculiar nervousness which comes from having to do it within a limited time, even if that time is liberal. It has to be done. If it is not, the entire plant may be slowed down...
...themselves exploited. No athlete, Levia than Levy is actually a victim of both elephantiasis and a weak heart. He runs a Boston parking lot, works intermittently in circuses, has so much appetite and so little fastidiousness that he eats peanuts in the shells. When wrestling, Leviathan Levy wears a tire tube for a belt. Off his feet, he requires four men to stand him up again. Opponents find him formidable be cause he is too big to hold, too slippery to twist, too heavy to lift. Leviathan Levy's only trick is to knock down an adversary with...
...would not go were Henry Ford, Walter P. Chrysler, Alfred P. Sloan Jr., Walter C. Teagle. Among those who could and did were Cord Corp.'s President Lucius B. Manning, TWA's President Jack Frye, De Soto Motor's President Byron C. Foy, Goodyear Tire & Rubber's President Paul W. Litchfeld, President Thomas N. McCarter of Public Service of New Jersey, Eastern Air Lines' General Manager Edward V. Rickenbacker, Director of Air Commerce Eugene L. Vidal, his assistant Col. J. Carroll Cone, Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, U. S. N., Pan American Airways' Juan Trippe...
...friends, a person called "Gigs," or Jackie Cooper if you insist, draws Mickey Rooney into the trade of tire stealing. It seems that he needs eighty dollars to buy a tombstone for his father, who has just been electrocuted. Freddy stumbles on their plans, and convinces them that they could get eighty dollars a lot more quickly by stealing toys from millionaires. But he is really the hero just the same. E.H.B...