Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noon, locking out 2,500 employes. Massing outside, they were joined by some 10,000 sympathetic workers from other mills. For a while the ugly-tempered crowd contented itself with milling, muttering, shying an occasional stone through plant windows. Suddenly some 300 men detached themselves from the main body and, while the mob set up a terrifying roar, battered their way through a line of 100 policemen, stormed through doors and windows, beat down the guards inside, commenced a Sit-Down. While 40 battlers licked their wounds, company officials promptly commenced negotiations with C. I. O.'s American Federation...
...demanding a share in the Government. Nowhere else in the world are Communists so decisively ranked among the conservatives. That is because in Catalonia, Communists believe in discipline, as opposed to the free-for-all philosophy of the pure Anarchists, largest and most troublesome group in the state. The main reason that government is possible at all in Catalonia is due to the extraordinary talent for compromise of Catalonia's president, excitable Luis Companys. President Companys has been in & out of jails much of his political career, has long fought for Catalan independence, speaks of Spain as "the Iberian...
...curve and the horses nearest the inside rail, though they still had an advantage in not having to run quite so far as outside horses, still faced the risk of being pocketed. War Admiral, who likes to lead from start to finish, drew the post position. One main question of the race, therefore, was whether his jockey, Charley Kurtsinger, could get him away fast enough to avoid being crowded by horses swinging in from the outside of the track. Kurtsinger did so. A few minutes after the crowd of 70,000 had seen War Admiral lead the parade...
...help administer Harvard's finances" would have chosen. The list of professors, and instructors of leanings decidedly to the Left of Center could be extended indefinitely. Indeed, complaint has been heard that the University has staffed its Social Departments with too many men of Leftist inclinations, but the main point to be observed is the utter folly of such charges as Mr. Lamb's ill-considered attack. Bitter wars of words can do no harm to an institution like Harvard, where academic liberty is as firmly entrenched as any vested interest, but such alarms and excursions as Mr. Lamb...
...huge bronze statues newly placed at the main entrance of the Biological Laboratories will be held tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock...