Word: breakers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the late Jay Gould, maker and breaker of railroads, lay dying, his devoted daughter Helen, then 24, was a constant attendant at his bedside. Last week at Roxbury, N. Y., Jay Gould's birthplace, she died, after a stroke, an extraordinary daughter of an extraordinary father, of an extraordinary family...
...PHOTOS." Later the Herex offered "$50 WEEKLY FOR NEWS TIPS AND NEWS PICTURES. . . . ALL INFORMATION IS CONFIDENTIAL." But both papers continued to get editions out with police assistance. Most distant striker: American Sports Writer Jim Gallagher, who was in New Orleans for a baseball meeting. Notable strike breaker: Margaret ("Maggie") Sikora, who has been working as a Herex stenographer since her "Model Husband," Rudolph, was acquitted of killing her sweetheart. At week's end, 46 American strikers announced through a Hearst spokesman that they were going back to work, adding "It was fun while it lasted!" Guild headquarters insisted...
...undergraduates who see me for the first time have read your newspapers and heard on the air that I am, at the very least, an ogre - a consorter with communists, a destroyer of the rich, a breaker of our ancient traditions. You think of me perhaps as the inventor of the economic royalist, of the wicked utilities, of the money changers of the temple. You have heard for six years that I was about to plunge the nation into war; that you and your little brothers would be sent to the bloody fields of battle in Europe; that...
There is a greater need than over for both text books and old clothes; it is hoped that this drive will equal the record breaker of last June...
Thither from Chicago went Dr. Tenerowicz in 1923, because he heard it was a "promising city" where thousands of Poles "needed guidance." Dr. Ten was a one-time breaker-boy from the coal mines of Punxsutawney, Pa. (pronounced Punk-soo-tawney). He had studied medicine at Loyola University, served in the Army Medical Corps. Eloquent and energetic, combining politics with doctoring like Michigan's late Royal S. Copeland, who became Senator from New York, Dr. Ten was only five years in becoming Hamtramck's mayor...