Word: signal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week placid, union-wise Father Maguire did a signal service to Labor and to another St. Viator alumnus. Vice President of big Warner Construction Co. is Thomas LeRoy Warner, who studied under Father Maguire over 30 years ago and is still his admiring friend. Last July his company was building Green Mountain Dam and power plant in Colorado for the U. S. Reclamation Bureau when five A. F. of L. unions struck for a closed shop. Deputized vigilantes from nearby towns and farms shot down five pickets, took over the dam site, behaved so raucously that Colorado...
...Statesman Churchill caught a plane for Croydon, dashed off a brilliant article for the London Daily Mirror, At the Eleventh Hour, on his way home. "Along all frontiers hundreds of thousands of men, armed with the most deadly weapons ever known, and behind them millions more, await the dread signal. There is only one man who can give it. There he sits, torn by passion and foreboding, by appetites and fears, with his finger moving toward a button which-if he presses it-will explode what is left of civilization. . . . But the choice is still open. There is no truth...
...Langley, Long Island's Mitchel, Michigan's Selfridge,* Louisiana's Barksdale, Alabama's Maxwell, Texas' Randolph, Kelly, Brooks and Duncan, Illinois's Chanute and Scott, Colorado's Lowry, Washington's Fort Lewis, California's March and Hamilton. At a radio signal from President Roosevelt in the White House, the planes at all these fields roared forward, swept aloft, joined each other in droning, hammering formations, swung in wide arcs over many cities to show U. S. civilians and taxpayers what their nation's wings look like and how they...
...military tribunals many Spanish Republicans. Despite thousands of former Loyalists imprisoned and executed by the New Spain, underground resistance remains. Fortnight ago Major Gabaldon's chauffeur halted his automobile near Alcala de Henares when three men in the uniform of Army captains raised their arms in a signal to stop. It was an ambush. Seven hitchhikers climbed in the car, shot the Major, his 17-year-old daughter, the chauffeur, then tossed the bodies into a ditch...
Beaked Alan Patrick Herbert, 48, England's quixotic M. P. for Oxford who crusades with equal fervor for good beer, sensible divorce laws and the King's English, broke a lance against the windmill of officialese. Said he, if Nelson's famed signal ("England expects every man to do his duty") were repeated today, it would read: "England anticipates that as regards the current emergency, personnel will face up to the issues and exercise appropriately the functions allocated to their respective occupation groups...