Word: file
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason for failure was that its leaders did not favor the strike. These oldtime professionals had called it reluctantly when their hot-headed followers had threatened to throw them out if they did not. No strike, big or little, succeeds whose leaders lack heart. Moreover, most of the rank & file had no desire or intention to strangle San Francisco; their eagerness was to display Labor's solidarity. After four days of half-measures they lost their desire for a futile enterprise...
...brownshirt Storm Troopers every few hours with new orders. They must not wear their uniforms during July, must not assemble, must not question or dispute the Government's massacre methods in wiping out "the mutiny of a few Storm Troop leaders, a mutiny in which the rank and file were not involved." As a final sop to the boys in brown, who have every reason to fear that Adolf Hitler is going to reduce their numbers by a "cleansing" such as that through which Josef Stalin periodically puts the Communist Party, they were told last week: "Adolf Hitler...
...double file with every one in step the 20 pouch-necked, rufous, black & white-streaked grouse strutted forward, keeping perfect time. As one they hopped as neatly back. Forward again, and with heads bobbing the two front couples swung to left and right, wheeled fanwise, fell in at the rear. Four times the figure was repeated, until the rear couples were once more in their places. Now odd couples did a left face, even couples a right face, and the two lines moved apart. An about face brought them back together. Then all faced front and again the double file...
...Partisan League" and Governor Langer's Non-Partisan League proper. While his enemies bitterly cried for his defeat as "a convicted criminal." William Langer stood on his record. Was it not better, asked friends of "the poor man's Governor," to accept campaign funds from the rank-&-file than to solicit them from rich corporations which would expect fat State favors? On their ballots. North Dakotans, rich & poor, thundered "Yes!" Governor Langer was renominated with 115,000 votes, a majority of 15,000 over all other candidates, including Democrats...
...days later, Governor Langer went to Fargo to be sentenced by Judge Miller. The Law had not changed its mind. William Langer was sentenced to 18 months in prison, $10,000 fine. Taking the sentence with a smile, he planned to file an appeal...