Word: merriams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank Finley Merriam had stayed in Iowa where he was born 68 years ago he would have been spared a lot of trouble last week. He taught school, published a newspaper, gravitated from the Midwest to Long Beach. Calif., became a bank president, a realtor, a Knight of Pythias, a politician, and six weeks ago upon the death of James Rolph Jr., Governor of California just in time to face the best brand of California dynamite?a strike...
...bald Frank Merriam's fault that strikes in California are not like strikes elsewhere in the U. S. The Pacific Coast is still generations closer to frontier days than any other part of the country. Its businessmen, not inoculated with the chronic malaria of labor trouble, see Red at every labor agitation. Some of them hate labor unions with the hate their trail-blazing fathers had for Indians on the warpath. And they do not flinch from rough & tumble with their enemies. Labor, too, has still something of the, devil-may-care spirit of the dance halls and the lumber...
...following day was July 4 and there was comparative peace. The Matson Line had ordered 14 freight cars from the Belt Line to move perishable freight. Strikers announced that they would not let the cars be moved. That brought the power and prestige of California into the conflict. Governor Merriam, who had kept neutral in spite of his Southern California nonUnionism, spoke: "I accept the defy offered by those in charge of the strike. ... I will call upon the National Guard, the citizens of San Francisco and every citizen of the Commonwealth to support the Government...
...three days time. A truck strike, as Minneapolis learned two months ago, can tie up a city's entire business. Moreover 3,400 striking teamsters might spread the strike warfare all through San Francisco's business district. The prospect looked grimmer and grimmer to San Franciscans and to Governor Merriam who soon might need thousands of guardsmen to keep the peace. It also looked grim to the President's special labor board which began open hearings to dig out the issues, line up public opinion...
...English language. The spelling book, a best seller, supported him for the 21 years it took to pen definitions of 70,000 words. The first Webster was published in 1828 and its author lived long enough to revise it in 1840. When he died in 1843 G. & C. Merriam of Springfield, Mass, bought the unsold copies and all rights, of his dictionary, settled down to being a one-book publisher. It brought out the 400,000-entry New International, tenth complete revision of Noah Webster, in 1909, coasted along with that for 15 years. But only a dead language stands...