Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...project of Cuba's Army Strongman, Colonel Fulgencio Batista, is his Three-Year Plan, a 20-point New Deal inaugurated last year. Under it he has thus far distributed to indigent farmers well over 300,000 acres of State lands and lands formerly leased to private individuals and companies, constructed some 700 schools where army noncoms act as teachers, restricted the employment of foreigners and imposed price and minimum wage restrictions on the sugar industry. However, the surface of his mass of social, economic-reforms has not been scratched. So extensive are the proposed reforms that cynical oppositionists have...
...Harry Bridges' request for a hearing Senator Copeland turned a stony ear remarking: "This is an American committee considering the American merchant marine. We have no place for aliens." Meantime the Senator put on the witness stand the A. F. of L.'s maritime strongman, Joseph P. Ryan, boss of the Port of New York. Burly Mr. Ryan blandly assumed that everyone knew that...
...rifles had been returned at latest dispatches, and Christians were blowing up still more Moslem homes in reprisal for the burning of the airport. The Mohammedan world, familiar with the methods of a Christian whom they called "The Strongman of Bengal" when he was police commissioner of Calcutta, was incensed to learn that Strongman Sir Charles Augustus Tegart is being sent to Palestine. Next they learned that in Daharieh the Christians, not satisfied with dynamiting houses in reprisal for the capture of a few rifles, had levied a collective fine of $10,000 on the whole village. Since the Moslem...
...trivia last week were cease-&-desist orders against: 1) Coolerator Co. of Duluth, Minn, (iceboxes ) for offensive advertising including disparaging observations on electric refrigerators; 2) Tolpin Studios, Inc.. of Chicago for using the word "Limoges" on china which did not come from Limoges. France; and 3) Strongman Robert C. Hoffman of York, Pa. for fraudulent advertising and belittling his competitor, Manhattan's Strongman Charles Atlas (TIME...
...these years Hoyer never forgot his paints. Brushes and canvas traveled with him in the same trunk with his spangled leotards and high-laced gilt boots. Every minute that he could snatch from the theatre he spent in museums or sketching in the country. Strongman Hoyer likes to boast that he has seen every famed painting in the world. His sextet broke up a few years after 1902 when it first arrived in the U. S. Torvald Hoyer became Understander for the Yoskary Trio, an Italian act. In 1915 he put away liniment and leotard for good, settled in Chicago...