Word: townes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carey nevertheless thought he had done well for them: Philco had threatened to move out of Philadelphia, had already sublet its work to nonunion, out-of-town shops, and union men & women had been selling stuffed dates, shining shoes, going on relief. Principal union advantage: wealthy, fair-minded Trucker James Patrick Clarke is to arbitrate disputes, see to it that Philco keeps most of its production in Philadelphia...
Enough Rope. Falkenau, a typical Sudeten German town, was a flaunting forest of swastika banners on the afternoon before this Henlein order went out. By next morning not a single swastika was flying in Falkenau, and on the streets Nazis no longer greeted each other with the Hitler salute, as all had done the day before...
Schwaderbach- On Thursday, while Mr. Chamberlain was in the air, Sudeten German violence burst out on a much larger scale. Storm Troops besieged, captured police headquarters in the border town of Schwaderbach, opened the frontier to Germany, and marshaled such a heavy show of armed force that fresh forces of gendarmes who arrived were ordered by Dr. Benes from Prague to hold their ground around the town but not attack, lest the scale of operations amount to "warfare...
...scorers who qualified for the six rounds of match-play elimination. Tyro Vines would have promptly driven back to Pasadena (or perhaps on to the national tennis matches at Forest Hills) were it not for the fact that he had taken along a young Southern California tank-town actor named Pat Abbott to keep him company on his trans continental motor trip. Pat Abbott was still in the tournament...
...dank, dark, bar of a small-town hotel somewhere in up-state New York. Here they were, the whole train-load of them, stranded, with wash-outs ahead and bridges, out behind, isolated on a flood-girdled island. He was wet and weary and he thought rather apprehensively of the rising waters all around, but the beer was good and, by God, this was adventure of a sort. Out of another day was this dingy room, with its hideously-hewn, dirty-mirrored bar, its splintery floor, its dirty walls plastered with reward notices of rogues, new ond old. On these...