Word: frictional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...area closed down, organizers of the United Mine Workers of America circulated persistently among the jobless miners, exhorted them to unionize. Strikes followed. As bitterly opposed as ever to unionization were the politically powerful mine operators who hired small armies of deputy sheriffs to protect their property. Friction between miners, idle and sullen, and guards, armed and tough, generated sparks of hostility. Company commissaries were raided for food. Empty mine cabins were burned. Company property was dynamited. Non-union miners on their way to work were fired upon. Finally a deputy sheriff was shot dead at Evarts, focal point...
...eastern Texas last winter (TIME, Feb.2), caused horror and tragedy there last week. Near Gladewater, Sinclair Oil Company's No. I Cole well was brought in. Instantly the null gusher went wild. While 14 men were trying to get the well under control, a spark caused by tool friction suddenly turned a plenteous natural blessing into a howling inferno. Some of the workers managed to dodge out of the flames, two jumped for safety into the slush pit where they were boiled alive. The rest were quickly roasted. Fatalities, originally estimated at twelve, then nine, were finally...
...Follette clan as Progressives, as Liberals. And great, too, is the Liberal fame of eloquent Dr. Glenn Frank, whose translation from editor of Century magazine into president of the University of Wisconsin was a large pedagogical milestone of 1925. Between Liberal La Follette and Liberal Frank friction has been increasingly felt in Madison. The Governor's close friend and unofficial spokesman, Editor William Theodore Evjue of the Capital Times, has been openly flaying Dr. Frank. "The man who is afraid of his shadow," was one Evjue epithet. "Slip- pery and agile" were two Evjue adjectives...
Because no fire has yet shot out of Madison's smoke, the national Press has ignored it. Investigation finds several points of friction causing the smoke. Under the regime of Conservative Governor Fred R. Zimmerman, Dr. Frank vexed Wisconsin Liberals by refusing to permit Dora (Mrs. Bertrand) Russell to lecture on Companionate Marriage. Also against strong Liberal sentiment, he got a $350,-ooo gift from the Rockefeller Foundation. The Experimental College which Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn was imported to develop has been flayed for lack of discipline. And there are other minor issues. But, chiefly, personalities are involved. Many...
...mainstays of Boston's august Atlantic Monthly. With Princeton's equally down right Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Agnes Repplier shares first place among present-day U. S. women essayists. Unmarried, 73, she lives in Philadelphia. Some of her books: Essays in Idleness, Counter Currents, Points of Friction, Life of Pere Marquette...