Word: triumphed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outraged delegations speedily called on President Martin to explain the dismissal of the men largely responsible for the union's triumph over General Motors. Mr. Martin took refuge in the Eddystone Hotel. The delegations swarmed through the lobby, picketed the entrances. Telephone appeals for an audience were rebuffed with reports that Mr. Martin was out. Finally a group commanded by a unionist named Robert Gallagher penetrated to the fourth floor, started to pound and kick at Room...
Opening the House football season Lowell House hung up a 19-0 triumph over the Adams House eleven yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field. The other scheduled game, between last year's champions, Kirkland House, and Dunster was postponed until Monday afternoon...
...reach U. S. shores. From the time they boarded the Silverash at Singapore he and five assistants had been busy, forking hay for their ruminants, feeding fresh eggs to snakes, dangling frozen fish before crocodiles who had to be deluded into thinking they were catching them. By a triumph of nursing and nourishing they brought back alive 1,500 beasts of the field, forest and jungle, best of all 19 birds of paradise, two blue sheep, a Sumatran wild dog, four giraffes from the Sudan, and for Susie an eligible young husband named Wrestler who took delight in shaking hands...
Later young "Mitch" returned to farming, plunged into farmer politics and was nominated to stand as an Independent Liberal for a seat in the Federal House. His election was a stirring local triumph -because he was the first Liberal returned in 30 years by the county in which he stood. Ontario at that time had been mainly ruled by Conservatives for nearly a generation. Toronto had become the stronghold of Tories who felt so secure that years of niggling graft were heading the Province for a sudden, swift, pro-Liberal reaction to "throw the rascals out." It came soon...
Instead of blasting the King's representative in Ontario as he had planned, Premier "Mitch," after the first paroxysms of his triumph, began behaving like the canny farmer he is. at heart. Claiming his Conservative predecessors had left him a budgetary deficit of $3,734,000 which they "falsely represented" as a surplus of $476,000, "Mitch" started balancing Ontario's budget by cutting his own salary as Premier from $12,000 to $10,000, cut his Cabinet Members from $10,000 to $8,000. Further slashing reduced Ontario Government salaries all along the line, cuts in some...