Word: mcguffey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Just "McGuffey's," that's all. No other identification is necessary for multitudes of Americans. How could it be otherwise when 120,000,000 copies of the famous Readers were used by the children of 37 states in the later two-thirds of the last century...
Located in the central part of the State 35 mi. west of Warren Gamaliel Harding's Marion, McGuffey lies in the mucklands around the Scioto River where the National Onion Growers Association controls 17,000 acres of onions and peppermint. In June the 700 men, women & children who weed the crop 10 to 12 hours a day for a maximum wage of 12 an hour struck for 35? an hour and an 8-hour day. The American Federation of Labor rushed in to organize the strikers who, finding that they got more out of the Relief Administration than they...
...first thing the McGuffey deputies did after the Mayor's house was blasted was to arrest Okey O'Dell. The first thing the aroused citizenry did when it got up that morning was to form a motorcade, storm the jail, seize Mr. O'Dell, transport him none too gently to the county line. "It's about time," remarked Mayor Ott's indignant wife, "something was done...
...Okey O'Dell hitchhiked back to McGuffey, sought his Brother Elizah and a .38 revolver, barricaded himself and a party of friends into his house. They shouted at a growing mob outside: "The only way we'll leave is to go as corpses...
About that time a lieutenant colonel of Ohio militia arrived in town as an "observer." He showed himself in uniform around the place and by nightfall McGuffey had calmed down. From Washington the Department of Labor dispatched another mediator. Meantime, the weeds were harvesting the onion crop...