Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bassill, ex-top sergeant of Marines, had a questionnaire in the form of a secret ballot mailed to his 1,858 Hopewell employes. Of the 1,074 who returned the blanks only 140 favored a strike and 839 declared they were not union members. Ten days later the "strike" broke, on the ground that 13 union members had been discharged. But it was less a walk-out than a force-out. At 4 a. m. strikers scaled the yard fences, raided the plant, drove the night shift out with hardly a moment's grace to stop the machines...
...fuel were delivered, wholesale merchants demanded police convoys to resume food deliveries. A picket truck blocked the path of a produce truck convoyed by twelve police cars. Police opened fire with riot guns. One policeman jumped the strikers' running board, was knocked on the head. Other strikers broke police lines, rushed to the scene. Police fired again. Fifty pickets were wounded, most of them in the arms and legs. One died next day. Overtures for a general strike were made but other unions promised no more than moral support. Meantime a two-day truce was declared, to give...
...Langer moral and, if necessary, physical support, climbed the hill to the Capitol to hear Acting Governor Olson, in shirt sleeves and blue Barters, declare: "Little did I dream 40 years ago when, as a farm boy, I came here from Wisconsin and with my first yoke of oxen broke up this prairie, that such a day as this would come. . . . For 38 years I paid my taxes on time, then, three years ago, I couldn't meet my taxes. A man's first duty is to his family. I have nine children. I don't blame...
...Swindler Alexandre Stavisky was no suicide but was shot by the Sûrete because highly placed politicians thought he knew too much. For months the Rightist Paris Press has been hammering insinuations of guilt at dapper Deputy Camille Chautemps who was Premier when the Stavisky scandal broke. M. Chautemps is now leader in the Chamber of the biggest Left bloc, the Radical Socialists whose Party President is Edouard Herriot, perpetual Mayor of Lyons, onetime Premier and today, like M. Tardieu, a Minister of State. One morning last week despondency at the slime being flung at the Chautemps family caused...
Vivacious, intelligent, with a master's degree in English from University of Chicago, "Geno" Herrick broke into the Tribune in 1918. Her most spectacular job was in 1921 when she crossed the Atlantic steerage, disguised as an Irish immigrant, went through the Ellis Island mill, reported her experiences. A frequent guest at diplomatic dinners, attractive "Geno" Herrick has amassed a wealth of Washington personalia which she reports in crisp, good-humored style. Excerpts from her first columns in the News...