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...well-known thumb on labor, with their right hands the leaders of industry have adroitly been harvesting the increased profits of the defense boom while continuing to avoid major taxes. More flagrant even than that, as a minor speaker at the congress of the National Association of Manufactures threw in their faces the other day, the highly paid executives have been raising their own salaries. Admitting that his figures of 18 per cent salary boosts were "scandalous", the speaker, a Tennessee congressman, proceeded to leave the N. A. M. meeting and fly to Washington to cast his ballot along with...
Once or twice each period they threw him a long lateral, but most of the time he was completely out of the play as the ball was snapped back to the fullback who headed directly into the line...
...Hafner threw a long pass to Jim Knowles for the sole Lionel-Mower score of the afternoon. Two points scored by a safety, combined with a Montgomery touchdown to give Straus an 8 to 6 lead at halftime...
...cruelty that was half terror. The King and Queen hid in a secret cupboard in their bedroom for two hours, listening to the searchers grow cold, then warm, then cold again, then warm, and at last hot, and burning hot. The weakly King was hard to kill: when they threw him from the balcony they thought him doubly dead from bullet wounds and sword slashes, but the fingers of his right hand clasped the railing and had to be cut off before he fell to the ground, where the fingers of his left hand clutched the grass...
Mary Ellen Chase is a well-beloved professor of English Literature at Smith College. One night, according to a campus story, when she was traveling in a lower berth, the man in the upper threw down a note reading "MADAM; Shall I come down?" Miss Chase, in describing the adventure, concluded: "Almost more than my terror at this moment was my horror at the monstrous use of the semicolon...