Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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At Marion. When the warning siren blew on the Marion Manufacturing Co.'s mill in Marion, N. C., one morning last week, Sheriff Oscar F. Adkins began to make a speech at the mill gates. He and several deputies had been up all night, warned by the mill officials...
Meantime the Senate continued its examination of the roaring, boasting, accusing cause of the present lobby excitements -William Baldwin Shearer, "AMERICAN, CHRISTIAN, PROTESTANT, NATIONALIST," the high-powered propagandist who is suing the Bethlehem, American Brown Boveri and Newport News shipbuilding companies for $257,655 back pay for alleged services in...
Between blasts at famed people, Shearer paused to state that he did not "break up the Geneva Conference," that he was not a lobbyist, only a propagandist.
Major O. Lee Bodenhamer of Arkansas was elected the Legion's new Commander, to succeed Paul Vories McNutt of Bloomington, Ind. The Bodenhamer election came by acclamation, without a rollcall, when Albert L. Cox of North Carolina, his chief rival, jumped up and did the nominating himself.
(See drawing p. 11); An unholy light filled the wide courtyard of Colorado's State Penitentiary at Canon City, the glare of floodlights and searchlights playing on Cellhouse No. 3. Two other cellhouses, the prison chapel and the messhall, were blazing ruins. In the prison "bull pen"-a sunken...