Word: tower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years Mrs. O'Connor was a tower of moral strength in the San Francisco Police Department. Part of her job was to keep her door open to the less criminal among the city's unfortunates, listen to their stories, advise them. Last month she reached the Department's retiring age, 63, and found that the law made no provision for pensioning a policewoman. The Chronicle thereupon invited her to become its Director of Social Service, privately interview and assist readers with troubles more grave than the heart, publicly comment on their letters in a daily column...
...arch-conservative New York Herald Tribune surprised its readers last week by changing its typeface to a bigger, bolder cut. Last week Herald Tribune readers were further astonished when the paper suddenly and with no explanation dropped the famed Conning Tower column of Franklin Pierce Adams ("F. P. A."). Mr. Adams cheerfully explained in a characteristic sentence: "They just wanted me to work for less money, whereas I wanted to work for more." But New York newspapermen knew that the differenfce went deeper than dollars. Between stolid, self-conscious Mr. Reid and saturnine, self-satisfied Mr. Adams, for 16 years...
With barrels of beer and an evening of informal singing, the reorganized Instrumental Clubs began their spring season at a meeting in the Lowell House Tower Room last night. Secor D. Browne '38, president of the Clubs, outlined the plans for spring concerts and called first rehearsals for Monday...
...debate in the Senate then degenerated into the sort of thing that occurred among the builders of the Tower of Babel: the arguers could no longer speak one another's language. In Republican language Senator Vandenberg's figures meant that reciprocal tariff agreements were putting the U. S. on the road to bankruptcy. In Democratic language the same figures meant just the opposite: not only was the U. S. selling more of its products (biggest single U. S. export: cotton), but U. S. investors were finally tending to get something of value (more imports) as return...
...Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. (contact points) 63 sit-downers who had previously repulsed an assault by 125 deputy sheriffs (TIME, March 1) were suddenly awakened at 5:15 a. m. by a bombardment of gas shells and grenades. Looking out they beheld a strange object, a 20-ft. wooden tower erected on the rear end of a truck. From slits in the tower four marksmen with repeating guns were pouring tear and nauseating gas shells into the second and third story windows of the seized plant. The sit-downers put on masks or covered their noses with wet rags, their eyes...