Word: trails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing handsome fundamentalist Chaplain Gatlin felt he had a right to do was to win sailors to Christ. In eight months, he converted 31 men. But the Navy found the Kentucky-born chaplain's sawdust-trail activities "embarrassing and disquieting," asked him to resign. When he stood his ground and refused, he was put on the inactive list (TIME, July...
...races, comfortable bank accounts in his wife's name. He controlled judges and cops. His friends ranged from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer, the "numbers" king. The vote was his bludgeon and his armor; when Prosecutor Tom Dewey came belling toward him up a trail of racket-busting evidence, Jimmy was unruffled...
Government by Confusion. Biddle, and his Assistant Attorney General, stocky Wendell Berge (rhymes with serge) had long been planning an attack on the railroads. Over a year ago they swarmed into action when a Justice Department investigator quite casually discovered the trail of a "Western Agreement" among the railroads. The Western Agreement was news to the Justice Department; it sounded mysterious and sinister. Actually it had been in the newspapers off-&-on for twelve years...
Undefeated Company B, idle since Monday, still leads the league with four games won, although recent victories by Lowell and the C team have brought them within striking distance of the pacesetters. The two clubs are tied for second and trail by one-half game...
...wife & children left him for shame. Then reform seized him. Now he had ample livestock, 21 acres under cultivation. His family was home again. His village had elected him the local "hero of labor." Overwhelmed, the 63 erh-lü-tze hit the sawdust trail...