Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emotions. But at the old folks home was a strict regulation against inmates marrying. One day, on leave, John Ellich and Marie Kiefer eloped to Manhattan. For two years after that officials of the home watched the strangely happy couple with growing suspicion, at length called them up and wrung a confession of their marriage. One of the pair, the officials decided, must leave. That night thunder rolled over Tappan, drowning out the sound of two revolver shots. Next morning the superintendent peered over a transom at the lifeless bodies of Mr. & Mrs. John Ellich...
...sweat and labor the NRAdministrator wrung from the steelmasters an offer to set up a board like the Automobile Labor Board; to have three members appointed by the President, one to represent employers, one labor, one the public. This board was to decide who should represent labor in collective bargaining. If Amalgamated had been promised one membership on this board, it might well have been satisfied. The steelmasters. however, had no intention of giving Amalgamated the privilege of speaking for all steel labor. They conditioned their offer with the proviso that no member of the Board should have any professional...
Just 53 weeks before President Harriman had wrung his hands before a House Committee, imploring the Government to save business from their own cupidity. "I should be perfectly willing, speaking for myself and not for the Chamber," said Mr. Harriman then, "to see an amendment to the Constitution which gave for a period of two years the right to the President to exercise great power and regulation over industry and business." Last week President Harriman cheerfully admitted that the Chamber had been formulating plans for regulating industry and agriculture as far back as 1931. What the Chamber had not originated...
...Carr's sorrowful story wrung the hearts of the House committee, but what could be done? The "gag" rule adopted last month prevented any extra appropriation being added to any bill (TIME, Jan. 22). To the rescue went Chairman McReynolds of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Preparing a special relief bill, he notified newshawks: "You can inform our foreign service people for me that help is coming to them-and very soon...
...director, cast, sets and costumes. Since she was acting in Hollywood in Universal's Only Yesterday, names and sketches were submitted to her by mail, telephone and telegraph. After a false start on the road and the addition of $50,000 worth of scenery and costumes, the Shuberts wrung their hands and announced "a new policy of hiring the best talent, like Florenz Ziegfeld himself." When the 1934 Ziegfeld Follies opened last week in Manhattan, the Shuberts' name was not on the program. But it was not needed, for the opening occurred not at the New Amsterdam...