Word: tor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When debate resumed this week, Sena tor Byrnes changed his amendment to apply to all Sit-Downs affecting interstate commerce, but many a colleague still objected to having it tacked to the Guffey Bill. Denying assertions that a vote against the amendment would be a tacit endorsement of the Sit-Down. Senator Minton cried: "I'm willing to meet this issue but I am unwilling to have the textile industry compel me to cast a vote that might be construed as the Senators suggest...
...squad now stands as follows: Pitchers:--Roy Moore, John Woodward; Catchers:--Bob Fulton, Bob Gorham, Peter Pratt; Infielders:--Vint Freedley, Charlie Lutz, Ray McPherson, Sam Merrill, Arthur Page, Bill Thomas, Bill Wood; Outfielders:--Charlie Curtis, Bart Kelley, Tor MacDonald...
When I heard His Majesty's final words -'I cannot carry on without the woman I love-I realized I still had respect tor him. ... I had enough loyalty left for Edward to let me cease doing anything that might annoy...
...nine years from Jan. 1, 1928 to Jan 1 1937 there were 55 wrecks of scheduled U. S. passenger airliners bringing death to 181 passengers, or one tor every 2,000,000 miles of flight. Best year was 1933, when airlines flew 21,700,000 passenger-miles per fatality. Worst accident year on record for U. S. railroads was 1907, when they killed 647 passengers while running 27,700,000,000 passenger-miles. This was 42,800,000 passenger-miles per fatality or about twice as good as the air's best record. In 1936, though the lines equaled...
...Federal District Court, filed Promoter Spear's suit for $1,000,000 damages against Papa Dionne, Doctor Dafoe, the Quintuplets' guardians and others. Grounds: breaking a contract & conspiring to break it. Twice the suit was dismissed, but a third amended complaint stuck. Last week counsel for Doc tor Dafoe sought to finish the affair once...