Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amendment to bar monopoly-made goods from interstate commerce. But as C. I. O.'s John L. Lewis and A. F. of L.'s William Green agreed with each other and with Capital that the wages & hours fixing powers of the Act were too great, Administration supporters took a new, more critical look at the bill...
Monroe. Biggest demonstration of public opinion took place at the town of Monroe, Mich., where Newton Steel Co., a small subsidiary of Republic, had been closed by the strike. Pickets held the one road leading to the mill and refused to allow non-strikers to pass. The city election commission polled the mill workers on the question of returning to work. The returns were 856 for, 20 against. Although S.W.O.C. advised its members not to vote, this was a clear majority of the plant's 1,322 workers. Mayor Daniel A. Knaggs announced that the plant would be opened...
...downtown Manhattan, the cool, deep haunt of many a millionaire, a surprising disturbance took place even before Mr. Morgenthau went into action. Cards printed in haste but with greatest dignity suddenly announced the disruption of the venerable law firm of Hughes, Schurman & Dwight. This is the firm from which the Chief Justice of the U. S. resigned to mount the high bench in 1930. The present senior partner, Charles Evans Hughes Jr., announced the formation of Hughes, Richards, Hubbard & Ewing. His former partner, the business & tax expert of the old firm, announced under the name of Dwight, Harris, Koegel & Caskey...
...heart set on making her a great ballerina. Irina had no time or strength left for thoughts about her own heart until, just as the time was drawing near for her debut, she met dour young Doctor Ivan. Ivan thought dancing and dancers ridiculous, but not Irina. They took each other so seriously that old Borodin had to order her back to her professional duty. Ivan was furious when she obeyed...
Trailing the Jumbos who scored once in the first, the Varsity tied the count in the fourth inning when the singling Tom Bilodeau dashed home on Frank Owen's safe clout. The Crimson took the lead in the fifth as Colwell walked, advanced to second on Curtiss' bunt, and crossed the plate on Art Johns' line drive to left...