Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order" in the vigilante sense, at least for civil peace.-In Michigan, Governor Murphy, who with consummate patience sat out the General Motors strike early this year, had not been able to give his State peace. Instead Michigan had a Chrysler strike, an uproarious labor holiday in Lansing, a battle at the Ford plant, another at the opening of a steel plant in Monroe. In Illinois, Governor Horner had not prevented a pitched battle at the Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. last February, a more deadly battle at Republic Steel's mill in South Chicago on Memorial Day. In Ohio, Governor...
...Memorial Day riot outside Republic Steel Corp.'s South Chicago plant, a Paramount newsreel cameraman named Orlando Lippert had his truck parked about 50 ft. from the centre of the police line. Cameraman Lippert was the only newsreel man on hand, his rivals, despairing of action from a holiday crowd sprinkled with women & children, having packed off to the automobile races in Indianapolis. Except for the two or three times he stopped to shift lenses for closeup or wide-angle shots, Cameraman Lippert kept his eye glued to his view finder throughout the whole bloody affair...
...This first week's work was plainly unsatisfying to the Congressional inquisitors. "Is that all?'' asked Senator La Follette. "Aren't you going to discuss the incorporated yacht?'' asked Congressman Frank Crowther of Schenectady. "Let's have some information, not a Roman holiday...
Sixty-five miles away in Pontiac, the United Automobile Workers local union, some 15,000 strong, inflamed by the news of what had happened to their C.I.O. cousins, declared a general holiday and announced a mass march on Monroe to close the Newton steel mill. Governor Murphy advised the auto men's chief, Homer Martin, to advise the Pontiac union against it. He did, and the march was called...
...reunion is most valuable. It permits the renewal of friendships that may have lapsed because of geographical and other reasons, it enables Harvard men who have come from all sections to exchange views on the University and life in general, and above all it gives a restful and amusing holiday on which the returning graduates can relieve the scenes of their youth, sporting on the green sward, often with the boon of families, and partaking of such rare Falernian as Cambridge still has to offer. Thus from every point of view the return of Harvard's classes for their twenty...