Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, Negro Conrad Miller was arrested, charged with carrying a "concealed weapon'': a mousetrap with two .22-calibre cartridges fixed so as to fire when the trap snapped...
...Union says it does not "want young people going to college only to find themselves in an economic trap--with no jobs when they graduate." That would appear to be just what Mr. Conant does not want, and what he is afraid of. The Union, however, goes on to say, "But unemployment is not the result of the education." Mr. conant might well reply that it is often the result of the wrong kind of education. Can the Union possibly suppose that its own urging ". . . that the fundamental problem be faced . . ." is met by ignoring economic need in the actual...
...missed his cue and before Senator Barkley woke New York's Senator Wagner had the floor. Senator Wagner brought up the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill. Although Alben Barkley has cast a good Southern vote against anti-lynching bills in the past, he was caught in a legislative trap. To prevent a new filibuster from wrecking the closing hours of the session, he promised Senator Wagner if he would withdraw it for the time, that it would be considered, second only to the Farm Bill, next session...
...attempt to trap etching-collectors into self-betrayal, applicants are asked, "What are your interests and hobbies?"; and, "Would you prefer a girl that shared them...
Married. Gertrude Bennett, 17, Michigan State Normal College student, daughter of Harry H. Bennett, Ford's hard-boiled personnel director and plant police head; to Russell Hughes, 21, tap dancer and trap drummer. Chubby Gertrude's abrupt disappearance, after the receipt by Bennett of several phoned and mailed threats in recent months, the last "particularly nasty in its implications," made Bennett fear kidnapping. Federal agents were notified, a search begun. But Miss Bennett had merely eloped to Florida...