Word: men
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tully does not like to be called hard-boiled himself, but the people he writes about are not ladies' men. He continues to write about the hoboes he knew when he was one of them because he thinks it is good for men to know all their brothers and because not one writer in a hundred knows the idiom that he does...
...last chapter of the book describes a hanging in San Quentin prison. Two of the onlookers, both big men, topple over in a faint while the prison doctor listens to the slowing beat of the hanged man's heart. The prisoner has left a letter for the Warden, protesting his innocence: on the margin he had scrawled: "This is true, so help me God. Just a few minutes...
Bitter, of course, was the protest of pilots at this grading and economizing. About 50 flying men gathered at once on Long Island. Practical, they admitted to the Curtiss-Wright company: "The economic condition of Eastern pilots in winter prohibits our direct refusal of the terms you offer." Less immediately practical, they telegraphed the National Pilots Association at Cleveland, which is a sort of flyers' union, for permission to join and for its Secretary Carl Francis Egge to go East to organize them...
...formally is now active. Pilots and mechanics assemble in hangars and lunch wagons to mull over grievances. Dale ("'Red") Jackson travels here and there advocating unions (TIME, Dec. 23). Last week he was in Miami to agitate at the all-American air meet. At Muskogee, Okla., the local men last week received a first union charter from the American Federation of Labor...
Harvard and Yale have not met in dual competition before the annual track meet for several years. Formerly, however, the Crimson and Blue distance men used to compete in the B. A. A. games in a 2-mile relay. This year, the B. A. A. sent invitations to Harvard and Yale to compete in the 1-mile event, and Harvard has accepted. Although Yale has not officially done so as yet, the authorities at New Haven are believed to be in favor of the race...