Word: wolcott
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...browed, jut-jawed Groucho Marx; but few people anywhere would recognize a picture of his wife. Kipling married a Vermont girl, Caroline Balestier, but readers of Something of Myself are led to infer that she could hardly be considered American. (Kipling does not mention his brother-in-law, Wolcott Balestier, who collaborated with him on the Naulahka, and with whom he quarreled.) The U. S. where he spent four years after his marriage, he mentions often, always in the same tone. "Reporters came from papers in Boston which I presume believed itself to be civilized and demanded interviews. I told...
...number one" eight, is composed of the Varsity lettermen who have come back, with fillings-in where necessary from the last year's Jayvees. Jim Chace is stroking this outfit, and behind him are Johnny Austin, John Clark, John Gardiner, Doug Erickson, Bob Wolcott, Roger Cutler and Bill Haskins...
...evacuate Flint's two Fisher body plants.± but also commanded strikers, leaders and sympathizers to cease all picketing and demonstration around G. M. plants throughout Michigan. With a roar the embattled unionists flung the judge's order back in his round, bespectacled face. Sheriff Thomas Wolcott read it to the sit-downers amid contemptuous silence, departed with a grin. The grim, bearded sit-downers telegraphed to Governor Frank Murphy their determination to die before obeying it. Thousands of outside sympathizers poured into Flint, joined the strikers' militant, red-bereted Women's Emergency Brigade in marching...
...Governor Murphy's request, 250-lb. Sheriff Wolcott had made no move to enforce Judge Gadola's injunction. After three days a G. M. superintendent went to the judge, got a writ ordering arrest of the sit-downers and of 15 union officials, including Homer Martin, for contempt of court. To Detroit went word that Sheriff Wolcott was preparing to lead an army of Flint policemen, deputies, American Legionaries, sheriffs and General Motors police to serve the writ. Few hours after President Roosevelt sent to Congress his message on judicial reorganization (see p. 16), the supremacy of Executive...
...traitors, the most terrible of all tyrants since the world was born." In Rochester alone Reformer Howard delivered 3.500 speeches and sermons, boasted that he accepted pay for but one. With the proceeds from that he conducted a successful campaign, invading a neighboring county to help defeat Wet James Wolcott Wadsworth for the U. S. Senate...