Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amendments to the bituminous coal code that cut hours from eight to seven per day, raised wages. The Appalachian coal operators, in whose mines the United Mine workers are strongest, were prompt to accept the agreement. The operators of the South and Southwest, who in years past have worsted the United Mine Workers, stood out against the change, maintained that higher freight rates from their mines necessitated lower wages. The Alabama operators even went so far as to shut down their mines to obtain a temporary injunction against the new NRA regulation on the grounds that General Johnson...
...civilians ranging from General Schmidt of the poison gas department, a handful of colonels, a truckload of captains, down to a group of students who were supposed to start demonstrations in the street as soon as the assassinating had properly begun. Last week Rumania lay paralyzed by its worst assassination scare to date. The Government clapped on an iron censorship, pooh-poohed "a thing which usually should be regarded as nothing more than mere news." Police called in foreign correspondents who had slipped out "mere news" stories, lectured them and held the New York Times' correspondent Dr. Eugen Kovacs...
Last week President Roosevelt's three-man labor board to bring peace to the automobile industry settled down to its work in Detroit. Its appointment fortnight ago had served to avert what threatened to be the worst strike under NRA-a strike that would have thrown 200,000 men out of work, closed hundreds of plants, cut production in dozens of other industries, crippled the Midwest and seriously retarded the President's whole recovery program. Now the board's primary job was to untangle the unionization dispute between the motorcar makers and the American Federation of Labor...
Such was last week's score in Kansas City's municipal election. When blackjacks were pocketed and votes were counted, Kansas Citizens knew the worst: The Fusion attempt to break the rule of Boss Thomas Joseph ("Big Tom") Pendergast's Democratic machine had failed. Re-elected by a 59,566 plurality was Boss-backed Mayor Bryce Byram Smith, a mild-mannered baking company official in his spare time. Defeated was Dr. Albert Ross Hill, 64, anti-Boss Democrat, onetime (1908-20) president of the University of Missouri, holder of a dozen college degrees and author...
Aside from a lavish use of color the rest of the pictures from prisons had little in common. Many were copied from postcards, magazine covers, old masters. The best had a primitive quality. Work from New York's Clinton Prison at Dannemora, where are housed the worst criminals, showed the influence of Convict Instructor Peter J. Curtis, a onetime sign painter, who exhibited two grinning putty-faced crones called A Bit of Scandal and an aproned oldster taking snuff. Other pictures included a likeness of Abraham Lincoln, a Burial of Christ, romantic portraits of women, Indian scenes, dying Cossacks...