Word: june
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...powers, actual violence and armed citizenry-as Monroe's picket line battle the reporter who can tell a connected story with proper emphasis is to be congratulated, and I want to extend those congratulations to TIME. Its account of the "Second battle of the River Raisin" I TIME, June 21 ] is in keeping with TIME'S record. In only one particular I would like to add a codicil for accuracy: Mayor Knagg's motley army carried no guns when it broke the picket line, save half a dozen who toted their own side arms. Shotguns and deer...
...first battle of the River Raisin was fought Jan. 22, 1813, not more than three blocks from where tear gas routed the CIO picket line June 10, 1937. It was an engagement between 800 Kentucky militiamen sent by General William Henry Harrison for the relief of General Hull at Detroit and about 1,500 British and Indians. The Americans arrived at the River Raisin Jan. 18 and dispersed a small British force. Three days later the British returned, found the Americans asleep, with no sentries posted, and fell upon them, killing some 150 and taking the rest prisoners. "Remember...
TIME'S reporting of the river ducking given rampant unionists by Michigan State College students (TiME, June 14) is too chary. Permit me to elaborate on such an unparalleled incident as the clashing of striking workers and college students...
...Franklin Roosevelt saved out an hour for Author Emil Ludwig who is going to write his biography (TIME, June 28), another for Lady Astor. Emerging afterwards she interviewed herself...
...police prevented the strikers from closing the mill by force, he was in the peculiar position for a Labor Governor, of "breaking the strike." Then the United Mine Workers called 40,000 miners to march on Johnstown. Declaring martial law, he sent in troops and shut the mill (TIME, June 28). So there was no violence of consequence in Johnstown. Where three others had fumbled, Governor Earle had made a putout. Last week he justified the Cambria shut-down by saying: "In this crisis the choice to be made was lives or dollars. I chose lives. . . ." Last week, the immediate...