Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...music of banjo and guitar. Shortly after midnight the plant superintendent appeared at the door and announced: ''All you fellows are fired!" He was followed by 50 State police who arrested all the strikers under warrants for trespassing. The strikers got up with good humor, took their banjo and guitar and marched through the deserted streets to police court. There at 2 a. m. a sleepy police judge released them without bail for appearance later in town court. Next day the strikers picketed, the plant operated peacefully...
Motoring near drab little Uniontown, Pa. one evening last September, the local district attorney and a county detective encountered an automobile careening crazily down the road, stopped it, arrested the driver for drunken driving. He was Frank C. Monaghan, a 64-year-old Uniontown hotel man. The detective took the old man's wheel. The district attorney drove ahead, returned when he saw that the second car was not following. He found the detective staggering down the road, bleeding from a knife wound. Frank Monaghan was hauled to police headquarters for questioning. There that night he died, of "heart...
...Ziesing Jr. to keep the Journal up where it was in its great days under the late Edward Bok. Last week in the trade press, the Journal was announcing that its January circulation had hit its all-time high of more than 2,900,000 copies. The advertisement also took note of the spectacularly wrong editorial guess which led off the record-breaking January Journal: a frontispiece and full-page color portrait of Edward VIII, "BY THE GRACE OF GOD, OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND AND OF THE BRITISH DOMINIONS BEYOND THE SEAS, KING. . . ." The Journal's coronation story...
...company devoted to the printing of outdoor advertising posters. Last week, while he lay ill of a gastric complaint in a nursing home, Fleet Street learned that Elias had outbid Beaverbrook and Rothermere, had bought for a reputed ?600,000 cash controlling interest in British Illustrated Group. He thus took over control of the cut-glass society weeklies Tatler, Bystander, Sphere, as well as the Illustrated London News, Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News and the monthly Britannia...
...week Driver Washington and Owner Rauch stood in Queens County Court accused by the State of being equally responsible for her death. In previous cases it had never been possible to pin wilful negligence on the owner or prove that he knew his truck was defective. This time it took the jury only three hours to set a precedent by convicting both men of second-degree manslaughter. Remarked the judge, deferring sentence: "This verdict may save the lives of many people...