Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ocean City, Md., fishermen last week repeatedly broke the record for numbers of white marlin boated in one day out of one port. From 41 the record leaped to 73, to 123. Fisherman Franklin Roosevelt had his sea gear loaded aboard the Potomac, sped to "The Jackspot" for the weekend. Trolling from the Potomac's stern, while men all around him caught marlin, Mr. Roosevelt got skunked...
This week 27 Journal employes joined the Herald. About 500 were out of jobs. Though up-&-coming Sam Newhouse will be the power behind the rejuvenated Herald, he was reluctant to have his coup known. Over most of the weekend he was locked up in a Syracuse Hotel room but the only word to be got from the room was: "Mr. Newhouse is not here...
...whom the leader is grey-haired, pink-faced Fred Voigt, one of the ablest newspapermen in England and a close friend of Sir Robert Vansittart, famed Foreign Office careerist. Printed on a hand press in an Old Gloucester Street basement, Arrow comes out on Friday, helps to fill the weekend gap in British news. Its policy: ''England must be strong...
...years ago Labormaster John L. Lewis, after long study of the meat industry, slapped his paunch impatiently and sent his No. 1 soapbox fireball, Van A. Bittner, to organize Chicago's 24,000 packinghouse workers for the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Last weekend, two years of patient preparation matured in a mass meeting in the Chicago Coliseum. John Lewis was ready to move against Armour, second packer in the Big Four. In 17 Armour plants from St. Paul to Los Angeles to Birmingham, Ala. to Milwaukee, the Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee had either been named sole bargaining agent...
...Last weekend, A. R. P. News readers got a little clearer view of the shape of things that may come. Britain staged its first large-scale blackout, including almost all southern England except London. Planes flew in from the coast to test the skill of volunteer "spotters" and searchlight crews. On vacant lots bombs were exploded to give the volunteer firemen, decontaminators and first-aid crews practice in rushing through darkened streets to danger spots. Observers in the air watched for lights that would be a giveaway to enemy aviators. The blackout, pronounced a success, was on an entirely volunteer...