Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...include three of the greatest milers of the day-Pennsylvania's Gene Venzke, Princeton's Bill Bonthron and Cunningham. The Kansan followed his custom of not bothering to practice. His legs, burned so badly when he was a child that doctors doubted if he would ever walk again, are too delicate to stand much preliminary pounding. The day of the race he motored to Princeton where Venzke and Bonthron had been training separately, golfing together. There he put on track clothes, limbered up for a few minutes while a crowd of 25,000 Alumni Day visitors poured into...
...Rank & File Committee was in a belligerent mood, and soon grew more so. They said: "We'd like to see General Johnson walk up to an open-hearth furnace and get his summer pants scorched for $21.84 a week." The hard-boiled ex-cavalry officer retorted that in the saddle he had worn enough skin off his fundament to make half a dozen such critics as the Rank & Filers. Next morning he read in the papers an open letter to himself...
...Slow Train Through Arkansas described the vicissitudes of a traveler who, clean-shaven at the beginning of an Arkansas train ride, had a full-grown beard at the trip's end. He explained he did not want to get off and walk because his family did not expect him until the train got in. Another traveler tried to commit suicide by lying on the tracks in front of the train, starved to death before the locomotive reached...
...afternoon last week U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery left the front door of his Embassy in Havana and walked down the street in his cutaway and high hat-nonchalantly as became a diplomat. He proceeded straight to the door of the Presidential Palace where, as he arrived, a band on the terrace played "The Star Spangled Banner" and "El himno bayames." Marching inside while the guns of Cabanas Fortress across the bay boomed a 21-gun salute, he received profuse protestations of pleasure from President Carlos Mendieta y Montefur. There was bravery in Ambassador Caffery's walk from...
...hand could be disposed of. A 25% cut in machine hours meant a 25% cut in man hours and a 25% cut in wages. Unless the order were canceled Tom McMahon promised to call a strike of the United Textile Workers, promised that 300,000 men would walk out. Said he: "The issue at stake apparently is whether the workers are willing to accept a 25% wage reduction. The answer based upon telegrams from our workers North and South is an emphatic...