Word: marched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longstanding war in Illinois between the rival miners' unions makes Labor's current internecine strike look like a taffy-pulling contest. The Progressives maintain that John Lewis imported 10,000 miners to crush the revolt. The Progressives themselves on one occasion massed 15,000 for a march on Franklin County. Pitched battles were fought with as many as 300 armed miners engaged. Hundreds were wounded in open conflict and no less than 21 Progressives were murdered. Trains were dynamited, a bridge burned, and bombings became as common as rain. The state of law enforcement in the Illinois coal...
...ever executed by the Supreme Court was on the constitutionality of State minimum wage laws for women. In invalidating New York State's minimum wage law in June 1936, it created a legal "no man's land" from which both State and Federal legislation was barred. In March 1937, the Court adroitly reversed itself, to uphold an analogous Washington statute...
...American Newspaper Publishers Association President James Geddes Stahlman showed his fellow members how economies can be made. His Nashville Banner has long been published each evening and Sunday. But lately it has been losing advertising to the Tennessean-in receivership for four years before Silliman Evans bought it last March-published each morning, evening and Sunday. To end a ruinous circulation and advertising fight between their rival papers, Mr. Evans, also chairman of Maryland Casualty Co., and Mr. Stahlman have formed Newspaper Printing Corp. which will solicit advertising, print and distribute both papers from a new $150,000 building. Each...
...plans to have a child, Paramount suggested that she compromise, adopt one. She declined. Ivan F. Cox, deposed secretary-treasurer of Harry Bridges' San Francisco longshoremen's union, filed suit against 5,000 Jane & John Does, Longshoreman Bridges and other union officials, Cinemactors Fredric March, Franchot Tone, Mary Astor, James Cagney, Lionel Stander, Jean Muir, and Director William Dieterle. Charge: Led by Cinemactor March, the group had conspired to propagate Communism on the Pacific Coast, causing Mr. Cox to lose his job. Damages asked: $5,100,000. Mr. Cox announced that if he won his case he would...
Nothing Sacred (Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger. TIME...