Word: directional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...violent protest of the workers involved, President John Llewellyn Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America signed a contract with Illinois coal operators reducing the basic daily wage from $6.10 to $5. Whatever justification for this dictatorial procedure there may have been, the reaction of the miners was direct and immediate. A large group revolted, setting themselves up as the Progressive Miners of America, an organization with 30,000 members in the bituminous fields of Illinois and Indiana, which this year joined up with Mr. Lewis' enemy...
...several soldiers who, if they were not aware of her identity when they came aboard, were in no misapprehension when they left. At 1130 p. m. a squadron of planes, easily identified as Japanese by the red balls on their wings, appeared and dropped their first bomb. A direct hit just forward of the bridge put the Panay's only antiaircraft gun out of action, slammed Lieut. Commander Hughes against the bridge wheel, broke his leg, and blew all the clothes off Lieutenant D. H. Biwerse of Sheboygan, Wis. but left him uninjured...
...might have made a mistake, but when they dived and bombed her a second time the Panay's crew could no longer believe it. They manned the machine guns on deck and began to fire. Respecting the machine guns, the planes did not come close enough to score direct hits on their third and fourth returns but their bombs struck alongside, puncturing her near the water and hastening her sinking...
Secondary picketing is no new labor weapon like the Sit-Down but its legality is by no means generally conceded. A few States forbid picketing in any form, some that allow direct picketing forbid secondary, many have no picketing statutes at all. Generally conceded, however, is the illegality of the "secondary boycott" which applies indiscriminate pressure on a third and disinterested party. In its decision last week the New York State Court of Appeals drew the line between seconds rv picketing and secondary boycott by order-ing the Butchers' Union to confine its pressure to the non-union products...
...last week the score of those who took the so-called elixir,* according to the U. S. Pure Food & Drug Administration which wants Dr. Massengill to show cause why he should not be prosecuted for criminal carelessness, stood at: 73 dead "as a direct result of taking the drug," and 20 more dead for whom "it has not yet been established that this drug was exclusively responsible...