Word: marched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least temporarily, by getting each side to pledge certain things to him though not to each other. The truce was to last until the National Labor Relations Board should give an official ruling. Inland's final pledge was not to discriminate between strikers and non-strikers when the march back-to-work began. C.I.O.'s regional director, Van A. Bittner, telephoned the East Chicago pickets: "For God's sake don't let anything interfere! We've obtained a very fine settlement." The grim picket line became a victory parade and 12,000 men returned...
...told-you-so telegram, called before him the district's two chief Labor leaders and warned them to get out of town or stay "at their own risk." The most determined of the two, James Mark of the United Mine Workers, replied by calling 40,000 miners to march on Johnstown for an Independence Day demonstration...
...points for the week. Daily trading on the New York Stock Exchange never reached 1,000,000 shares.* Yet Wall Street had what Owen D. Young calls a "feeling in the seat of the pants" that the market had turned a corner. From a recovery high early in March to their low in June the Dow-Jones industrials dropped approximately 15%, from 194.4 to 165.5. By last week they were back to 172.2. Mercurial shifts in Wall Street sentiment can never be adequately explained but the chief contributing factors last week seemed to be the lifting in some measure...
Reynolds, who retired as president of the bank last Jan. 1. After spending his 64th birthday in California, where he first met Mrs. Reynolds and played halfback on the powerful Stanford football team of 1894, Banker Reynolds was back making work for himself as a First National director last March. Lately he has been using Mr. Baker's old office on the main floor. Until 1917 a lawyer and professor of law at Columbia (where Franklin Roosevelt attended his lectures), Mr. Reynolds was persuaded to go into banking by the elder George F. Baker, who made him First National...
...fouled him with the authorities. He left town in a hurry, headed for General Amherst's French & Indian-fighting army at Crown Point, at the southern end of Lake Champlain. There he enlisted in Rogers' famed Rangers, just in time to join the heroic two months' march on and retreat from St. Francis, Canadian Indian village that had been the hornet-nest base for many a raid against the frontier settlements of New England...