Word: doned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Judge Ralph J. Dady had promptly issued a temporary order for them to evacuate. But the example of the automobile sit-downers in Flint (TIME, Feb. 15) had taught the Fansteel men to pay no attention to the court. Just as Flint's Judge Paul V. Gadola had done, Judge Dady issued a writ for the sitters' arrest. This time there was no Governor Murphy to tell the sheriff to ignore...
...winds whistled through the broken windows of the heatless, lightless factory. . . . Heat came up after two days, but negotiations to end the strike remained frozen. Like Governor Murphy, sympathetic Governor Homer refused to risk bloodshed by sending militia to evict the sitters. As General Motors' officials had first done, Fansteel's President Robert J. Aitchison stood firm on his property rights, refused to discuss a settlement until his plant was evacuated. Thrice rejecting Governor Horner's pleas for a conference, he said he was perfectly willing to talk to his own employes, but would never treat with...
Apart from the fact that they all freely said they had tried to have Dictator Joseph Stalin killed, the most striking feature of the Second Moscow Old Bolsheviks Trial (TIME, Feb. 8 et ante) was the agreement of the prisoners that they had also done their best to rid Russia of darkling, high-powered Grigoriy Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze...
There was equal agreement that there is no static state of Utopia, that there should be no discussion of a possible condition of perpetual prosperity. Anything that is done is merely a stage in the development of civilization, and the term "the present economic system" was seldom hard...
...redeem himself for his showing in the Welch-won mile, Northrop came back to run a powerful last leg in the Crimson's two mile relay team which surprised most of the spectators with a dazzling 7 minutes 59.6 second showing, turning back the Elis who had done about that time at the Millrose games. This was the only event the Harvard managed to get a first in during the meet...