Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Ford, the most famed tycoon alive, was up a tree this week. The old 'coon had been treed before, but this time not only Organized Labor...
Most of the limbs on Henry Ford's tree have been lopped off-one of the last ones by the Supreme Court. An NLRB ruling that Mr. Ford had violated the Wagner Act was upheld by the Circuit Court. The Supreme Court declined to review the case when Ford appealed. About the only limb left was delay. Toward that limb Mr. Ford was edging. Said his hardfisted, right-hand man, Harry Bennett: "If the NLRB orders an election, of course we will hold one, because Mr. Ford will observe the law. C. I. O. will win it, of course...
...more abstract than Surrealist Salvador Dali. Least abstract of the four abstractionists' pictures were those of stocky Fernand Leger, who now lives in the U. S. Leger's intricate designs, drawn with thick, coally lines and colored in flat patches, were made up of recognizable hands, faces, tree roots, fried eggs, birds and feet, looked a little like elaborate sculptural reliefs. Abstractionist Feininger's subject matter was also recognizable, but his ships and buildings looked, when he was through with them, like earthquakes viewed through a shattered plate-glass window. Abstractionist Kandinsky ran the gamut from fairly...
...boys, who certainly didn't belong in the neighborhood, had been seen walking down the road with rifles over their shoulders. Three officers began investigating Echo Lake, thought they saw a light. As one started for the door a shot rang out. The officer jumped behind a tree, sent for reinforcements. Around 10 o'clock in the bright starlit night, a huge force-14 State troopers and local policemen, eleven civilians-had assembled to demand that the gunmen surrender. There was the classic defiant answer, less frightening than it would have been if the boys' voices...
...example, last year this time the College was just recovering from two so-called "silly" episodes. The first was when a smitten Freshman tried to make a date with a pretty damsel from Radcliffe. When she refused, he climbed a tree in Cambridge Common, in full view of her window, and stayed there for the better part of seven hours until she relented. While in the tree he composed the following ditty...