Word: flareup
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national emergency, tough Captain George Fried of the U. S. Bureau of Marine Inspection & Navigation had up twelve strikers before a board of investigation, threatened to revoke their seamen's certificates. The C.I.O. National Maritime Union's hulking President Joe Curran had previously ended a similar flareup on two other ships by agreeing to negotiate, making the settlements retroactive. He first said his union had no hand in last week's strikes, later declared: "Our offer to furnish crews without wages for ships carrying refugees free still stands. . . . But common humanity compels us to make some effort...
...University from President Conant down to the lowliest instructor keeping strictly mum, the Cambridge Council's fling for publicity by demanding that Harvard be made a separate and distinct municipality began to die down last night. As a reckoning was made, the following facts had come out of the flareup...
...treasury depleted by unemployment and unpaid dues; a new outbreak of outlaw strikes in General Motors, several parts plants; the tactical weaknesses inherent for any union in a period of widespread layoffs; substantial concessions to management in contract renewals; a recent and violent intra-union factional flareup-all this impelled Mr. Martin to seek out unionism's new Great Father in Washington...
...regents and a large number of people of the state of Wisconsin, failed as an administrator of public funds. In each of the crises which the university has faced in the last two years, the Snell "affair" at the Extension Division in Milwaukee in 1935, the Spears-Meanwell athletic flareup last spring and the present budget question which brought about this latest trouble, Frank has failed to take a strong stand and has remained "unavailable" until the crisis was past. It is on these grounds that the regents seek to remove him, not because Governor LaFollette wants...
...centuries these products have come down on long caravans of shaggy camels into China Proper-to Peiping and the port of Tientsin. But beyond Manchuria and Mongolia lies Russia. For several years the Soviets have been intensively penetrating China from their side. Even before last week's flareup Japan practically controlled South Manchuria up to and beyond Mukden, but the Russian grip on Mongolia was fairly complete. Russia had turned the traffic in hides, bristles, hair back toward Moscow. Business was hard hit in Japan, Tientsin was starving. There were Japanese businessmen who applauded the seizure of Mukden, therefore...