Word: fists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brien asked why, one of the soft-snarling men stuck a revolver against her apron. Mrs. O'Brien put her hand in her apron pocket where she kept her key ring -and a crucifix. She clutched the crucifix and uttered a silent, urgent prayer. Then she swung her fist to the gunman...
Labor's history is not exactly a bed of roses. Most unions have had to win better wages and shorter hours by the mailed fist rather than the oily word. Yet occasionally a union organizes effectively enough, and the employer is intelligent enough, to avoid the exercise of collective strength. When that happens, union members ought to shake their apron-strings in glee. It's happening all right, but some of the workers are responding rather perversely...
...Becker claimed that his forehead injury had been certified by a doctor as having been caused by a harder object than a fist, said he had filed insult-&-injury charges against Minister Earle just for the looks of the thing...
...become a matter of great concern that the men and machinery that make steel should keep going. The U. S. watched and kept its fingers crossed against the time it might have to make a fist. Let there be no stoppage of work. By stoppage, the U. S. people meant strikes. Let there be no strikes. If there were strikes for any except good reasons, the U. S. people would hold organized labor to blame...
...trial. Once he asserted that Kansas City's syphilitic prostitutes, instead of being locked up in institutions, were being taken to the edge of town and turned loose. When the mayor challenged the charge, the police commissioners backed up Dr. Birkhead in public. The mayor, infuriated, brought his fist down on the table with a crash, exploded "By God!" and fell dead. Since then Dr. Birkhead has had to go easier on his opponents. But last week, claiming that there were 15 to 20 million pro-Nazis in the U. S., and not enough people "howling" for democracy...