Word: harassment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rough-&-tumble was his particular meat. He was an able name-caller himself. The battle of the Post and Rocky Mountain News was costly to both combatants. Because the Scripps-Howard morning News started an evening edition to compete with the Post, Bonfils brought out a morning Post to harass the News. For two years they tried to outstrip each other in expensive promotion stunts until in 1928 lively little Publisher Roy Wilson Howard went to Denver, made peace with Publisher Bonfils. Scripps-Howard withdrew its evening paper, Bonfils his morning one. There was amiable talk about how the remaining...
...helps families in sickness, runs a night school for employes and their families. Despite this paternalism, and despite the fact that many Forstmann workers are more skilled, hence higher-paid, than the general run of mill workers, the Forstmann company has not escaped the labor troubles which continually harass the textile trades. In the big Passaic Textile strikes of 1926 Mr. Forstmann refused to allow his workers to join the American Federation of Labor, obtaining a permanent injunction against it. His firm even hinted that the factory would be moved unless its laborers behaved. Weaver Forstmann is proud...
Lawyer Darrow appeared as counsel for Barker and White. He told horrified Judge Lyle he always had been "close to unions," added significantly: "If the authorities wish to harass the lawless they should do it legally. There is no such charge in law as a 'Public Enemy.' The vagrancy law provides for release under $100 bond, yet men are being . . . made to furnish $10,000 bonds...
Problem of the maneuvers was how best to harass, surprise a huge, unwieldy advancing army (like the French or Russian) with a small, extremely mobile force. For two days the "Blue" army, (one division) inflating itself to look as much as possible like 50,000 Frenchmen, advanced slowly, methodically against the reds. Third day maneuvers went into reverse. General Heye, chief umpire, commander of the Reichswehr, announced that "the Red army has had enough practice in retreating," ordered the Blues to show their practice in retreat. At week's end maneuvers ended in a perfect holocaust of fire. Soldiers...
...Gillette's troubles. Last week Segal Lock & Hardware Co., potent gadgetmaker, was well along with an advertising campaign for Segal Razor Blade, patents pending. While this new blade is being introduced only in New York at present, Segal plans a national campaign in the near future, may harass both Gillette and Auto Strop...