Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case originated early last May when 250 C.I.O. unionists took over Apex Hosiery's Philadelphia plant, refused to budge until they won a closed-shop contract. The company claimed the plant was stormed from without, that 2,500 workers were driven from their jobs, that $3,000,000 worth of damage was done during the rioting. For seven weeks the sit-downers held complete possession. After a Federal District Court judge denied Apex an injunction, the company appealed. Said the three Circuit Court jurists in last week's unanimous opinion...
...would be easy for His Majesty's Government to seem courageous, but only at the expense of the peace of Europe. Therefore the Government's policy, said Mr. Eden, is "peace at almost any price." The Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, Laborite Clement Attlee, took occasion to call Britain's placid Government "swine" and their Conservative supporters at one point in the confused debate took to chanting "Peace! Peace! Peace...
...really no accident," but due to the fact that Mola's pilot was secretly an anarchist, suicidally wrecked the plane to kill Mola. Finally there was fierce, sporadic fighting on all sectors around Madrid but the month closed with a stalemate in status quo as the Rightists finally took Bilbao (TIME, June...
...Husky boathouse four years before the late famed Hiram Conibear became crew coach in 1907. He grew tough rowing daily two miles across Lake Washington to and from high school in Seattle. Entering Washington in 1922, he at once turned out for crew, rowed in the freshman shell that took second place at Poughkeepsie the following spring. Sophomore year he stroked the Washington varsity to victory at Poughkeepsie. He captained Coach Rusty Callow's greatest Washington crew to an-other Poughkeepsie victory in 1926, sharing honors with Sanford, Sonju and James Matthews, who now helps Callow at the University...
...arrived 1 min. 10 sec. after the beginning of the eighth round. As Braddock took a wobbling step forward, Louis planted a right on the point of the champion's sagging jaw. The peculiar, wet-sounding detonation of what experts considered one of the hardest punches ever delivered in a prize ring told spectators on the rim of the park exactly what had happened. While Louis stood in a neutral corner, not bothering to look back. Referee Tommy Thomas counted ten over the unconscious ex-champion...