Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortunate it was that von Papen did not walk behind the bier of the murdered Dollfuss. It would have been unbearable for the hundreds of thousands of mourners to see in the cortege the representative of the regime that is guilty of the death of our beloved Chancellor...
...Pasadena, Calif., when Roy Dickson was barely old enough to walk, his father, a photographer, told him of adventures with snakes in India. The boy toddled off and caught one near his home. Thereafter he wandered through neighboring canyons, developed an uncanny instinct for locating snakes and lizards. Poisonous reptiles he catches with a forked stick, nonpoisonous ones with his bare hands. He has never been bitten. Last week Roy Dickson, 11, fondled a Western Ring snake, rarest of his collection, planned to go after a rattler next...
...mailed to his 1,858 Hopewell employes. Of the 1,074 who returned the blanks only 140 favored a strike and 839 declared they were not union members. Ten days later the "strike" broke, on the ground that 13 union members had been discharged. But it was less a walk-out than a force-out. At 4 a. m. strikers scaled the yard fences, raided the plant, drove the night shift out with hardly a moment's grace to stop the machines...
...rain began to fall, breaking the long heat wave (see p. 9), the body of John Dillinger was lowered into a grave beside that of his mother. Mr. Fillmore intoned: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. . . ." The dirt was shovelled...
...business today is running a hair-raising race with rising costs but the utilities are apparently boxed. A shot of still bigger volume or higher prices or both might help the industrials to win. An expansion in carloadings would send in the railroads at a walk, and there is some public sympathy for their talk of higher rates. But power & light companies confront not only regulatory bodies dead set against a rate rise but also public agitation for lower rates...