Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manchester, Mass. Edward Mandell House, 78-year-old adviser to the last previous Democratic President, arrived to spend his 40th summer in the Massachusetts North Shore. Questioned by newshawks he predicted flatly: "Roosevelt will not be a candidate for a third term...
Sixty-five miles away in Pontiac, the United Automobile Workers local union, some 15,000 strong, inflamed by the news of what had happened to their C.I.O. cousins, declared a general holiday and announced a mass march on Monroe to close the Newton steel mill. Governor Murphy advised the auto men's chief, Homer Martin, to advise the Pontiac union against it. He did, and the march was called...
...Homer Martin felt he must save his union's face. He called for a mass meeting at Monroe of union men from Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. Mayor Knaggs, who already had a large part of his aroused constituents under arms, appealed vociferously to Governor Murphy for militia and State police to protect his city from the expected mob. The Governor finally arranged that the meeting should be held at a State park three miles from Monroe, promised to have 350 guardsmen on hand to keep the union men out of the anti-union town and also see that...
Finding no intoxicant gases in the sugar factory, doctors concluded that the monotonous machines had driven the young women into a mass hysteria, the psychic phenomenon used with striking effect by Charlie Chaplin in his last picture, Modern Times...