Word: loyall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pretext for the seizure was an ultimatum, by President Mendieta to Cuban Telephone demanding that it re-employ certain strikers, including men who had committed acts of sabotage last spring. Loyal employes were subjected to weeks of terrorist intimidation. Several had their houses bombed. Last week they manifestoed: "We will not work with strikers who have tried to murder us." But President Mendieta, convinced that he was posing as the Friend of the Masses, pushed on with his ultimatum which was flatly rejected by U. S. General Manager Henry C. Hart of Cuban Telephone...
When word leaked out that Manager Hart had resigned, female Cuban Telephone employes filled the corridors with their wailing. When Mr. Hart walked out he was cheered for five minutes. Said the loyal employes' spokesman, Secretary Pablo Martinez of the Telephone Workers Union: "Under no circumstances will the present workers agree to the return of the strikers." He then asked his followers to give Interventor Montoulieu a chance, assured them "If the Government's management proves unsatisfactory we can easily retaliate by paralyzing telephone service throughout Cuba." Said the Interventor: "I will employ common sense. This matter must...
...Millions of loyal subjects listening by radio while King George opened "Queens-way," world's largest underwater tunnel at Liverpool, could scarcely hear the royal words because of a thundering airplane advertising Crawford's Cream Crackers overhead. Last week Their Majesties had the satisfaction of knowing that $25,000 has been paid to expiate this lèse-majeste. To Liverpool papers William Crawford & Sons, Ltd. sent under no compulsion, except the mighty smash of public opinion, the following abject letter...
...Queen and I send our loyal Innuit subjects a message of greeting from our home in the great encampment of London. In every part of the Empire, be it ever so many sleeps from our encampment, the happiness of our subjects deeply affects the personal happiness of the Queen and myself. In the same way as parents are proud of their children, the Queen and I take especial pride in our faithful and hardy Innuit...
Paris Interlude (MGM). The No. 2 heroine of this picture is a standard cut-out from all Hollywood's style sheets, the loyal girl friend. When in Paris Interlude, Julie (Madge Evans) gets drunk in a saloon, Cassie (Una Merkel) helps her home. When Julie's boy friend Sam (Otto Kruger) flies off for China, Cassie comforts her. When Sam has been reported dead, Cassie tells Julie's nicest suitor (Robert Young) how best to further his cause. True to cinema type, Cassie talks tough and, has no male associates of her own. That...