Word: split
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Engineer Halliday decided to hire enough black bucks to dam the Dangu and create an artificial lake. A whole village, more than 200 blacks, were hired at a shilling and tuppence (27?) a head per week. In the sweating jungle Congo belles wheedled out of their bosses split piston rings for their noses, rivets for their ears. Duralumin rings for bracelets. Soon blacks and whites were so friendly that each Briton had a nickname in native dialect. Radioman James Wycherley was named "King of the white men" because he sat at his dials instead of working...
...Hepburn-King split is generally thought to be due to Mitch Hepburn's ambitions and personal jealousy. Ontario's Premier is a kind of Huey Long, and there is not room for both a King and a Kingfish in Canadian politics. As he submitted the condemnatory resolution last week, Mitch Hepburn said: "I stand firm on the statement that he [King] has not done his duty by his country and he never will. I am going to take my political future in my hands. If we are not reflecting the overwhelming sentiment of the people of Ontario, then...
...Alben Barkley of Kentucky complained that the Congress had nothing to do. Three months later the Senate was still taking three-day recesses for want of work. As usual, in the last two or three weeks, Session I jammed through the entire legislative program in a last-minute, lickety-split finish...
...powerful Freshman hockey team will be split into two ranks today, the first meeting Noble and Greenough at Dedham at 8 o'clock this afternoon and the other squaring off against Rindge Tech this evening in the Boston Skating Club...
...Dies Committee investigation. Up for debate was Soviet Russia's invasion of Finland, a subject close to the hearts of the 400 convention delegates. One group, led by Leftist Herbert Witt of New York University, was eager to plump squarely for Soviet Russia. But the Union was deeply split, for many a "fellow traveler" had decided to travel no further. Among them: dark, energetic Joseph Lash, leader of the Union (executive secretary since it was founded) and friend of Mrs. Roosevelt, who defended him month ago from the charge of Communism...