Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With 500 troopers and highway patrolmen at his command Col. Augustine S. Janeway gave the plant's general manager until 12:30 a. m. Sunday to comply with the shut-down order. Nothing happened. Forthwith the colonel posted troopers at the gates with instructions to allow no one to enter, though anyone was free to leave. Pennsylvania R.R. was forbidden to deliver inbound shipments. After an eleven-hour siege Bethlehem officially surrendered, under "duress" and still vigorously protesting the illegality of the Governor's action. The company was allowed to keep 900 men for maintenance and minimum operations...
...Allow me, however, to correct one statement in your story which mars its generally fair tone...
Monroe. Biggest demonstration of public opinion took place at the town of Monroe, Mich., where Newton Steel Co., a small subsidiary of Republic, had been closed by the strike. Pickets held the one road leading to the mill and refused to allow non-strikers to pass. The city election commission polled the mill workers on the question of returning to work. The returns were 856 for, 20 against. Although S.W.O.C. advised its members not to vote, this was a clear majority of the plant's 1,322 workers. Mayor Daniel A. Knaggs announced that the plant would be opened...
...leading to the sudden appearance of little Vicar Jardine at Monts last week. It is well known that one of the things that has most distressed Queen Mary in recent weeks has been the blunt refusal of grim Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury & Primate of All England, to allow any form of Church of England service at the wedding of her favorite son. It also happens that the bishop to whom Vicar Jardine owes allegiance is the Right Rev. Herbert Hensley Henson. Bishop of Durham, a noted liberal, longtime opponent of the Archbishop of Canterbury...
...without a tussle had the Pennsylvania tax been jammed through at the personal command of Governor Earle. The chains amassed petitions from their customers, lined up the press and the farmers in almost solid opposition. Once last spring after Columbia Broadcasting System refused to allow speakers to blast the bill in an A. & P. broadcast, big advertisements appeared with the scarehead: THIS is THE STORY THE RADIO KEPT FROM You. Below the condensed versions of undelivered speeches were the signatures not only of the principal chains but also of the Chester County Dairymen's Co-Operative Association, the Lehigh...