Word: win
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mooney, the class prisoner, was a symbol of labor's intolerable servitude. But Tom Mooney, pardoned and free, is a symbol no longer. He is an ex-class prisoner, who, to win his own freedom, led the workers into the enemy's camp [by advocating the election of Culbert Olson, who pardoned him], repudiated the class struggle and helped to elect to office a man who stands squarely upon the precepts of capitalism-a champion of private ownership. Before and since you [Tom Mooney] gained your freedom, you have expressed your intention to labor for a better social...
Blonde, 19-year-old Dorothy Davis is probably the most beautiful corporation president in the world. Her firm: Love, Inc., of Manhattan. Her commodity: Love, a game. In effect, Love is parchesi with sex appeal. Players start single, win by pairing with a player of the opposite sex, moving up to goal marked The Altar. Cards rather than dice determine moves. If a pair draw cards marked "Edward" and "Wallis," they move ahead fast; if they draw "Canterbury," they are "sent into exile." As a promotion stunt Miss Davis recently sent a box of Love to the Archbishop of Canterbury...
...Arab delegates in the forthcoming Arab-Jewish conference called by the British to ''solve'' the knotty Palestine problem. Not optimistic over the conference's outcome, Mr. Antonius was nevertheless hopeful that his new book. The Arab Awakening,* published last week, would win U. S. supporters for the Arab cause in Palestine...
...Left-that France renounce the Spanish non-intervention policy and openly aid the Spanish Loyalists, just as Italy and Germany are openly helping the Rebels. The realistic French General Staff was reported to be contemplating occupying the Island of Minorca and Spanish Morocco if the Italian-backed Rebels win the war. There were scary rumors that the Rebel-held side of the French-Spanish frontier had been fortified. There were predictions that a Mediterranean "Munich," with Italy the victor and France the loser, was in the offing...
...during a critical period of his illness last summer by his hopes of a victory for the Chicago Cubs in the World Series; of neurogenic sarcoma (nerve cancer); in Chicago. Told of the fourth straight defeat of the Cubs last fall, he replied: "Well, you can't always win...