Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Johns-Manville argued that the union-security demand was an attempt to interfere in "managerial policy.") At a union meeting in the church basement, after Mass, the strikers were asked if they wanted to continue the blockade. There was a unanimous "Oui." Then the men piled into waiting trucks, went back to the barricades to await the next assault...
...arbitration. At first the church kept silent, but a fortnight ago the Quebec Bishops' Sacerdotal Commission on Social Studies called on all Catholics, in the name of charity, to aid the strikers through Sunday church collections. Before the commission's report was published, three Duplessis ministers went to Ottawa and appealed to the Canadian Papal Delegate, Ildebrando Antoni-utti, to intervene. The answer they got was indicated at week's end by Quebec Archbishop Maurice Roy, who asked the commission statement be read in all pulpits and that strike collections be taken every Sunday until further notice...
Conchita Qintron, 26, girl bullfighter, drew ooohs and aaahs from 20,000 Frenchmen for her form-fitting black getup, but only perfunctory applause for her Paris debut in the ring. Since French law forbids the killing of bulls, cool-eyed Conchita went through her routines with wooden swords, made one "kill" by laying a handful of orchids daintily between her victim's horns...
...last week's 75th running of the Derby, plain Ben went to no such lengths. Steve Brooks, the Calumet jockey, rode at Pimlico the day before and finally got to jampacked Churchill Downs about noon on Derby day. Meanwhile Trainer Ben ("B.A.") Jones had told everybody who would listen how little he thought of his horse's chances. "I wouldn't bet a dollar on Ponder if he was 100 to 1," said he. "If he gets third money ($5,000), old B.A. will be the happiest man in the world." Ben Jones-and most everybody else...
...junior year at Simon Gratz High School (where he had already won letters in baseball, football, basketball and track), the Negro Bacharach Giants offered him $50 a weekend. That was the end of school as far as Campy was concerned. After he left the Bacharach Giants, he went with the Baltimore Elite Giants, backstopped in the eastern U.S., Puerto Rico, Mexico, Venezuela and Cuba in the next few years...