Word: calle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parts. "Troops might get through here," a striker confided to Scripps-Howard's Raymond Clapper, "but you ought to see what we've got inside. We have much more material than this piled around each stairway." "It would be folly," roared the New York Herald Tribune, "to call the sit-in strike of Detroit by any but its right name. That name is insurrection...
...C.I.O. call for a general strike of all ex cept food and drug stores closed a total of 95 of the city's 1,400 stores. A gen eral strike in the hosiery plants in and around Reading pushed the Philadelphia area's sit-down total above 20. Strongly-unionized New York City was lightly touched by the fever. Determined to stamp it out before it could get a start, police arrested 60 sit-downers in Brook lyn's Jewish Hospital for ''endangering the lives of patients," 100 in a Woolworth 5? & 10? store...
...Crown Prince Umberto which was to have represented His Majesty at the British Coronation. Reason: Vittorio Emanuele III and his subjects, including Il Duce, are united in considering His Majesty not only King of Italy but also Emperor of Ethiopia, united too in refusing to stomach what they call the "British insult" de livered when George VI invited Haile Selassie to send a native delegation "to represent the Ethiopian Emperor at the Coronation." This hot quarrel last week made sure of a snub in Rome for British Ambassador Sir Eric Drummond when he called to ask the Italian Foreign Office...
...economic Isaiah? And where does Uncle Danny Roper get off as a synthetic and official Leonard Ayres or Roger Babson? And why should all markets reflect words of theirs in a marked recession?" Meantime, neither Chairman Eccles' reiteration of his easy money aims nor his courageous call for taxes and debt retirement checked the cracking prices of Government bonds, which despite more determined Treasury support dropped to new lows for the year. In the last three weeks the market value of all Government securities had shrunk more than $1,274,000,000. Already jittery from a continual rattle...
While Kuo Kuo gets more mysterious and unmanageable with her secret plans, Juan solaces himself with Harriet, a travel-book writer. That affair lasts until Harriet's professional duties call her away to the pirates of Bias Bay. Then Juan falls into Kuo Kuo's clutches again, and almost before he knows it he finds himself in a tin-armored tank advancing against the Japanese intrenchments, under heavy but inaccurate fire. How Author Linklater extricates his hero from that parlous position is a caution...