Word: inland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harry Bridges also was in trouble with his own people last week. Having carried his "inland march" from his original waterfront stamping ground to the point where he bosses C. I. O. in California, he has encountered much antagonism among garment, auto, other unions. Last week the leaders of four Los Angeles locals (automobiles, rubber, garments, shoes) seceded from his California Industrial Union Council, charged that he was nesting with Communists. "We believe," said they, "that any one has a right to be a Communist or a Holy Roller or whatever they choose, but . . . they must give their first loyalty...
This week, as the heat lessened, the Rightists launched one of the most powerful assaults of the war. Along a ten-mile stretch on the farthest inland portion of the Ebro front, the Rightists hammered their way forward aided by strafing planes, hurled the Leftists back across the river and placed themselves in a position to make the rest of the Leftists' Ebro line untenable. Some 7,000 Leftists were reported killed, wounded or captured. Leftists claimed, however, that their offensive had upset Franco's summer plans and destroyed the possibility of a Franco victory before...
Economic Deviltry. Under Japan's puppet Governments in Nanking and in Peking, according to dispatches, companies dominated by Japanese officials are being given monopoly franchises to operate utilities in Nanking and vicinity, many Chinese mines and virtually all inland shipping on the lower Yangtze. Owners of the properties were advised by Japan's Chinese puppets to turn over their properties in exchange for stock in the new firms, or face outright confiscation within ten days. Dispatches from Peking reported that in Nanking, Chinese peddlers are now employed in large numbers by Japanese narcotic jobbers to peddle opium...
...will land. No more easy, therefore, was continuance of sessions at such universities as Nanking and Ginling, in the heart of bomb-riddled Nanking. Nanking University's compound began to be rocked with dugouts and shell holes. Five of the 13 colleges were obliged to move kit & boodle inland, at great expense. Yet all 13 completed the year's work. Moreover, they carried on two extraordinary extracurricular activities...
...After being taken for a tour of TVA dams, power plants, etc. as a member of Congress' joint investigating committee, Republican Representative Tom Jenkins of Ohio snorted: "These great inland seas . . . may be beautiful playgrounds, but they will cost . . . more than the Panama Canal...