Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking before students from Harvard, Radcliffe, Boston University, and M.I.T., representatives of the Communist. Party last night explained the purposes of the "Hunger March" at a meeting in Phillips Brooks House...
...Much to their surprise President-elect Roosevelt received in his study three unkempt Communist leaders planning a "hunger march" to Washington, spent 45 minutes listening to their "demands." Among other things they wanted $100,000,000 in relief funds, use of State armories, free transportation to Washington in State trucks, a guarantee against police interference. Polite but firm. Governor Roosevelt granted them nothing. Dialog...
...Minister MacDonald in Queen Anne's red & gold drawing room at St. James's Palace. On the basis of the Second Conference's agreements & disagreements, the British Government tried subsequently to impose on India a settlement, certain features of which Mahatma Gandhi successfully resisted by his hunger strike (TIME, Oct. 3). Of one thing only the British felt certain: Burma, the eastern province of India, was to receive by her people's wish and by the Round Table's consent a separate status and a separate constitution from Federal India...
Indignant Viennese newspapers stressed what seemed to them the piteous fact that the hunger-driven Austrian recruits will receive for the next twelve years only a minute wage, plus bed & board. The Treaty of St. Germain, they added bitterly, deprived Austria of all seaports and consequently of her Navy, reduced her Army to 30,000 men (including officers) and limited her "heavier armaments" to 450 machine guns, 60 trench mortars and 90 field guns & howitzers. Each Austrian soldier is permitted to have a gun, but the nation's stock of bullets is limited...
Saddest and strangest sight of the week was a hunger marchers' Women's Brigade whose cheer leader, Mrs. Harriet Paisley, is a 62-year-old Lancashire grandmother. Clattering along on thick-soled Lancashire clogs, these hard-faced women grimly entered and marched about London solemnly blowing rubber razzberries at well-dressed citizens, bobbies and Royal Horse Guards...