Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some of its worst body squeaks, President Roosevelt last week authorized General Johnson to strike out the price fixing and trade practice provisions in the codes of service industries. Next day General Johnson promptly performed the permitted operation on seven codes: 1) cleaning & dyeing; 2) automobile storage and parking; 3) barbers: 4) bowling and billiards; 5) shoe rebuilding; 6) advertising display installations: 7) advertising distribution. This stripped these codes to the bare bone of wage, hour, child labor, and collective bargaining clauses which service industries must still obey. Local groups may write prices back into their local codes provided...
...jumped the flames, began gnawing at the cheap little houses along Halsted Street. Three blocks of them had been licked up before 3,000 firemen and a shifting wind brought the conflagration under control. Toll: eight blocks of buildings; 1,200 homeless; 25 hospitalized; three missing; one dead. Verdict: worst since...
Month ago Senator Arthur Robinson, an Indiana Republican who can always be trusted to believe the worst about Democrats, suggested that the Senate's ocean-&-airmail investigating committee ought to look into the following: Had Vincent Astor, a director of International Mercantile Marine, and Kermit Roosevelt, an I. M. M. vice president, while aboard the Astor yacht Nourmahal off Florida with their friend Franklin D. Roosevelt, received from P. A. S. Franklin, president of I. M. M., private business messages to be conveyed to the President...
...worst thing he has had to deal with lately has been the amebic dysentery which Representatives Tom D. McKeown of Oklahoma, William E. Hess of Ohio and John C. Lehr of Michigan contracted in Chicago last October while studying bankruptcy receiverships there. Kenneth Romney, House sergeant-at-arms, who was with the Representatives, also caught the disease. Dr. Calver sent them all to Naval Hospital in Washington for a full course of treatment...
...week. It is a game the British are supposed to play better than U. S. golfers. If the game favored the British, desperately bent on winning after seven straight Walker Cup defeats, the weather favored the visitors. The wide greens, big as baseball fields, were sunny and the wind, worst of all St. Andrews' many infuriations...