Word: trimmers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crew cuts are gradually going out" said one man, a trimmer of Harvard heads for 20 years. "About seven years ago the boys began to wear their hair for comfort instead of looks. But the girls are beginning to put the pressure on the crew cuts now. The boys who do let their hair grow have it cut only about once a month...
Toiling and conscientious "Roy" Bulkley is. He works as hard as any man in the Senate. If he wavers on some national issues, that, his friends maintain, is because his mind moves deliberately, not because he is a trimmer. In support of this theory are his three votes against the Soldiers' Bonus, a remark he once made to Ohio Democratic chieftains who threatened to purge him unless he backed their candidate for a judgeship: "I guess it's more important for us to get a good judge than for me to stay in the Senate." Washington consensus...
...night 500 officers with bloodhounds searched the Washita River bottoms. Sometime near dawn Traxler and Tindol routed out James E. Denton, a frail middle-aged oil pumper and took him and his car. Later in the morning after driving through Caddo, they seized a farmer, Fred Trimmer, and changed cars. They had several close calls driving through towns, and going through a detour where a road gang was working...
Towards evening they pulled up on a deserted country road a few miles north-west of Boswell, Okla. and decided to wait for dark. Farmer Trimmer, a silent man, was-still at the wheel, with Pete Traxler beside him, a gun in his lap. Behind Trimmer sat Tindol also with a gun and across the seat sat graying little James Denton-whose middle name was Ethel because his parents hoped for a girl- wondering what his wife and three children would do if the badmen decided to kill him when dark came. Traxler and Tindol, who had been living...
When he finished his career as a football and dramatics star at University of Dayton in 1932, big, boyish Richard Truman Frankensteen taught school for a year, then went to work for Chrysler Corp. as a body trimmer in the Dodge plant in Detroit. He had worked there before, during high school vacations and for two years while he studied law at night. Soon automobile unionism was burgeoning with NRA, and educated, articulate Dick Frankensteen was a natural leader. When an Automotive Industrial Workers Association was organized in 1934 he became its first secretary. Next year...