Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unlike the Communist-instigated textile strikes in North Carolina (TIME, April 15), the Elizabethton walkout had the full and active support of the A. F. of L. President Green of the Federation formally pro tested to Gov. Horton that troops had been sent at the request of the mill owners "to terrorize the strikers...
...plants in busses and trucks under armed guards. The strikers, many of them also back-countrymen, attempted to block the highways, break up the convoys. Trees were felled across the road. In one case a "loyal worker" injured three strikers when ordered by Guardsmen to drive his car full tilt through a blockading group. Adjutant General W. C. Boyd in charge of militia at Elizabethton was arrested on a charge of "aiding and abetting an attempt to commit murder," preferred by a woman striker seriously injured by this motor onslaught...
Riots and bloodshed ensued. Tear bombs were hurled. Several hundred strikers were arrested at once and herded, shouting and cursing, into the Carter County Courthouse auditorium. The tiny jail was full. No sooner did law officers release some of the prisoners, than others were brought in. Elizabethton's 16-inch water conduit was dynamited three miles out of town. Schools closed. Trucks trundled to Johnson City, eleven miles away, for drinking water. Homes of strikers and strikebreakers were dynamited, barns burned...
...largest square stood throneless King Amanullah and a small ironbound box. Seizing the box firmly, plump Amanullah struggled with the iron hasp. Loudly he grunted, stoutly he tugged. So entertaining was the fat man's performance that though he sweated and wrestled on the platform for two full hours, the entire audience remained. Finally when his most vigorous contortions and loudest grunts began to pall, Amanullah paused, cried aloud to Mohammed for assistance. A final tug, and the box flew open. Perspiring Amanullah held high Mohammed's sacred cloak. Convinced, the Afghan audience prostrated themselves in the dust...
...roosters crowed in healthy unison. El Gallo* himself, the President of the Republic, General Gerardo Machado y Morales, had just gone to bed and to sleep in the presidential palace. The sun would soon be rising in the wake of the crescent moon. The General had spent the full night, as is his habit, dining, dancing, talking, enjoying himself heartily...