Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fourth morning some 1,500 strikebreakers lined up, marched toward the yards. Picketers met them with fists, bricks, clubs, lead pipes. Police rushed in with tear gas, managed to separate the rioters for a few minutes. On the second clash, five fire engines bore down on the seething mass-at 50 m.p.h., said strikers. Four men were seriously hurt, more than 100 banged and bruised. One aging striker was found dead of heart failure. State police continued to break up picket lines until Governor Earle called them off. This week, after President John G. Pew had appealed for a "Happy...
...week's end Leader Bridges flew East to address a series of mass meetings in Atlantic ports, try to persuade longshoremen to defy their officers, join the striking seamen. Anticipating the return from South America of apparently the only one who could settle the strike, Oakland and Berkeley, Calif.'s City Councils addressed to President Roosevelt a plea for "prompt and vigorous action...
This elementary course is trying to struggle along with a set of books containing a mass of unusual and abstruse idioms which would do credit to a native Frenchman. Nothing can be done about it--the books have been bought, and now they must be used. Thus the students are wasting approximately one third of the time they would have spent learning elementary French...
...idea of the magazine is to compile the latest information on mass opinion, the "controlling but obscure force" from the fields of scholarship, government, business, advertising, public relations, press, radio, and motion pictures...
...best line in "Mourning Becomes Electra" is the one which some neurotic speaks to the gardener: "Well, Seth, you bin with the Manons a long time." HOWARD M. JONES, Cambridge, Mass...