Word: drumbeaters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week as strikebreakers (hired for $1.25 a day) patrolled Kakuji Natsukawa's mills and drumbeat a continuous tattoo to drown out the shouts of strikers, Natsukawa calmly fired some 760 striking workers for what he called "poor achievement," and threatened to confine other strikers to their dormitories for a month. Government officials swarmed over his mills, and the Labor Ministry appointed a committee to negotiate a settlement, but Boss Natsukawa's faith remained firm. "Almighty Buddha will protect me," he said. "I am not an ordinary capitalist...
...Drumbeat Concert...
...hard, he merely frowns and keeps coming, and swinging, and missing. He windmills like an earnest apprentice, until sooner or later he lands one or two and becomes the brutal master. Then he drubs them. New England has not produced such a punisher since (in Vachel Lindsay's drumbeat lines...
LEOPOLDVILLE, Belgian Congo (Oct. 24)--In this weird land of drumbeat and mamba, chances still appear slim for finding a replacement seer before Saturday...