Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significance. For the time being at least the Supreme Court's Wagner Labor Act decisions reduced the great debate over the President's Supreme Court enlargement plan to an all but academic question, for the immediate reason which drove many liberals to support it was their wish for Labor legislation. One important aspect of the Wagner Labor Act not involved in last week's decisions was the right of the Labor Board to order plant elections and give exclusive bargaining power for all to the representatives of the majority. With the boost given them by these decisions...
...small fortune on a blonde artists' model, asking $1,000 per week alimony. Given this new idea of his wealth, Mr. Christensen's 400 employes promptly decided that he could afford to pay them better wages, walked out on strike. Up in a big black limousine drove Mrs. Christensen to cheer on the strikers, march for an hour in their picket line. Said Mr. Christensen, peering from behind his office curtains, "She is most unreasonable and uncivil. ... I haven't any such money . . . there isn't any such money in this business...
...swarmed down Chocolate Avenue past weeping Mr. Hershey, smashed in the factory doors, pounced on the Sit-Downers. Men pounded, pummeled, jabbed. Sit-Downers were soon trotting out with arms upraised, to run a walloping, stone-pelting gantlet. Just as the fight was ending, State police appeared, drove back the mob, began cleaning up the casualties-some 50 with bruises, cuts and black eyes, one man stabbed in the belly with an icepick...
...along the Labor front last week, the forces of A. F. of L. and C. I. O. were at last coming to grips in the internecine war foreshadowed by last summer's historic split. But while a united C. I. O. drove forward under Leader Lewis' command, A. F. of L.'s scattered armies seemed headed for certain brawls among themselves. Prime reason for the Labor split was John Lewis' threatened industrial-union encroachment on A. F. of L.'s jealously guarded craft union preserves. Yet last week, in a panicky rush to head...
...Virginia Woolf's descriptions are pictures: "It was March and the wind was blowing. . . . With one blast it blew out color-even a Rembrandt in the National Gallery, even a solid ruby in a Bond Street window: one blast and they were gone ... it paled every window; drove old gentlemen further and further into the leather smelling recesses of clubs; and old ladies to sit eyeless, leather cheeked, joyless among the tassels and antimacassars of their bedrooms and kitchens. Triumphing in its wantonness it emptied the streets; swept flesh before it; and coming smack into a dust cart standing...