Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers in the surrounding territory. So he went after the warehousemen, who stand economically between the longshoremen and the teamsters. There he clashed with Dave Beck in a violent struggle which is still far short of settlement. Meantime Bridges is being attacked on the flank by Harry Lundeberg, a tough, towering Norwegian from Oslo who arrived on the Pacific Coast a few years after Harry Bridges. Like Bridges, he is a life-long unionist who was catapulted to power in the 1934 strike but in the Sailors' Union of the Pacific. After the strike Harry Bridges was rewarded with...
...charwoman in the Old House Office Building, Congressman Mitchell had high hopes. Trivers had to work his way through high school and Miner Teachers College, where he was an R.O.T.C. officer, sold Negro newspapers. He got a job with the National Youth Administration. Congressman Mitchell thought he was tough enough to fight his own battles, might force Annapolis and the Navy to swallow their lily-white tradition. Last week Patron Mitchell had a shock. George Trivers' mother let him know that her son had resigned from the Naval Academy...
...hero who, through duty and red-hot blood rather than patriotism, faces death as manfully as love. Added to this familiar pattern are modern touches of swearing, sex and disillusionment. As a result Deep Soundings plays hob with the tradition which demands that adventure fiction, no matter how tough its heroes, must preserve a cleanliness seldom found elsewhere in life or literature. As an example of the one serious book which every adventure writer intends to write some day, Deep Soundings is mainly interesting because, unlike most such since Jack London's Martin Eden, it got published...
Experience long ago taught Britain the necessity of presenting a united front to recalcitrant foreign debtors. The instrument shaped for this purpose was the Corporation of Foreign Bondholders, a tough-minded agency which has the active support of the British Government. In the U. S., Congress provided for an analogous agency in a rider to the Securities Act of 1933, but because this smacked of dollar diplomacy President Roosevelt instigated a private agency called the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council now headed by Joshua Reuben Clark Jr., onetime Ambassador to Mexico. Last week the Council published its annual report...
...years ago. Many of his patients lived along the rugged coastal mountains reached only by difficult trails. Riding through this virgin terrain. Dr. Roberts grew to love its scrawny cypress, bosky gorges,, tall redwoods, dreamed of a scenic highway. Last week after 20 years of battling legislative opponents and tough engineering problems, Dr. Roberts finally saw his highway opened, a 139-mi. oiled string twined around the long fingers of the coastal mountains. The road reaches from arty Carmel-by-the-Sea down to William Randolph Hearst's huge San Simeon ranch and San Luis Obispo, opens...