Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news that the Supreme Court had handed down 13 Death sentences but spared "That Monkey" Radek and three other self-confessed arch-traitors last week, the crowds in the Moscow alleys were at first stupefied, incredulous. Had not Radek just been called by everyone such things as "the worst betrayer since Judas Iscariot"-the betrayer of Stalin? However, Communists are the world's most disciplined Party. With almost no grumbling, the Radek placards were discarded, the caricatures of other Old Bolsheviks doomed to Death raised high, and shouting, cheering into the Red Square swarmed the marchers...
...kidnap-murder of 10-year-old Charles Mattson (TIME, Jan. 18). Sternly the Chamber of Commerce members agreed that newsmen had made "gross mistakes that many people believe may have prevented the return of this child, unharmed," listed what they thought were some of the worst errors...
John Pelley, the A.A.R. and most railroad men are nowadays receiving their worst Labor headache from the pension problem. The first railroad pension plan was knocked out by the Supreme Court. Promptly passed was another one which has not yet reached the Supreme Court but was held unconstitutional by a lower court. Meantime the railroads and the Railway Labor Executives Association have been trying to get together on a mutually acceptable agreement to obviate the necessity of further legislation. They are split on a number of details, chiefly on whether the retirement...
...railroading, stocky, optimistic John Pelley cannot say. Ahead of him is not only the pension snarl and the demand for wage increases, but also a battle for a revision of freight rates to give his carriers more revenue. But John Pelley is no worrier. Said he in the worst of hard times: "Get me right. I'm not going to talk bullish. Nothing like that. I can't see myself sitting on a pink cloud right now. But people are overdoing this pessimism." Today, with the pink cloud at least in sight. John Pelley, like a spry trainman...
Back in America he aided Jefferson in the Louisiana Purchase, tinkered with his bridge models, fell out with his few remaining friends, suffered his worst blow when the election-supervisors at New Rochelle barred him from voting, called him an alien. He moved to Greenwich Village, died there while fighting off the churchmen who flocked to his bedside hoping to save the blackest soul in U. S. history. Though he asked to be buried in a Quaker cemetery, not even the Quakers would receive him. Repentant Journalist Cobbett dug up Paine's bones, intending to transplant them to Liverpool...