Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When it ended 30 minutes later, 45 pickets had been carted off to the police station and a dozen participants hurt. (Among the injured: a plain-clothes man who was mistaken for a picket by the cops and soundly slugged.)
They were lean, hard-boiled young sailors from the A.F.L. Seafarers International Union. The Seafarers, following the pattern of C.I.O.'s brawling National Maritime Union in helping striking white-collar workers, had decided to put some noise and muscle into the Financial Employes' walkout. When the cops moved...
¶ Citizens of St. Louis were beginning to worry over having the lowest-paid major police force in the nation. Half of their 1,750 disgusted cops were in debt, others were quitting. As the Missouri State Legislature dragged its feet on a pay-raise bill, the crime, rate rose...
Too late to avert a strike, the President appointed a fact-finding board. Meanwhile the union agreed to accept the 9? offer provided it was retroactive to Jan. 12 and that other demands were arbitrated. The packers turned that down. At week's end, 2,000 C.I.O. pickets plodded...
The Fiery Colchian. Beria, king of the cops, was born March 29, 1899, at Merkheuli, a village in Stalin's own Georgia. His family were poor peasants. He attended the polytechnic school at Baku and joined the Bolshevik Party before he received his degree in draftsmanship and engineering.