Word: backings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of a strike last summer (TIME, Sept. 9), the company was transferring all union workers to the night shift. Then the night shift would be discontinued for a while and the union workers got rid of. "Now, men," Sheriff Adkins says he said, "You will have to stand back and let anybody through that wants to come to work." Someone in the crowd shouted: "Over our dead bodies, then!" A day shift man shouldered his way through the crowd toward the mill gate. The crowd surged to hold him back. It was then, says Sheriff Adkins, that he started...
...still talking, talking.* Mrs. Hoover and Ishbel took a two-hour horseback ride. After 2 o'clock dinner, the President led everyone to the summit of Fork Mountain, 500 ft. higher than the camp. President and Prime Minister later talked again, before and after dinner. The start back to Washington was made soon after 8 o'clock next morning...
Senator Caraway explained the purpose of his resolution: "To expose the fortunetellers and astrologers* who maintain associations here at the expense of gullible men and women back in the States." He also hoped to disclose "who it is that finances the Southern Tariff Association, the Muscle Shoals lobby, the Estates Tax lobby, the present Tariff lobby, Mr. Joseph R. Grundy...
Meantime the Senate continued its examination of the roaring, boasting, accusing cause of the present lobby excitements -William Baldwin Shearer, "AMERICAN, CHRISTIAN, PROTESTANT, NATIONALIST," the high-powered propagandist who is suing the Bethlehem, American Brown Boveri and Newport News shipbuilding companies for $257,655 back pay for alleged services in breaking up the naval arms conference at Geneva in 1927 and boosting the Jones-White Act (ship subsidies) last year (TIME, Sept. 2 et seq.}. Company officials had testified they did hire Shearer, in admitted folly. Now the Senators had to hear Shearer. Between his gusts of anger...
...blistering barrage into the cellhouse windows as the priest went to the building's very entrance and laid the charge to blast an entrance. The ignition battery did not work. Father O'Neil returned for another heavy load of dynamite, ran in, laid it, ran back. Danny Daniels was seen at the cellhouse window trying to shoot the priest just before the explosion shattered all remaining windows in the neighborhood, blew men's hats off and buried the cellhouse in a heavy pall of smoke. A company of militia charged in, expecting to find a great breach...