Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Razmara, Chief of the General Staff who announced the start of the military movement, said first casualties were light and that some Azerbaijans surrendered. Some machine guns and small arms were captured, he added...
PITTSBURGH, December 10--The soft coal miners accelerated their back-to-the-pits movement to such an extent today that the Solid Fuels Administration estimated the nation's production of bituminous fuel had reached 95 percent of the normal daily diggings of 2,200,000 tons...
Mexico, especially the ancient capital, was abrim with activity, but not with economic health. The winter sun shone brightly on streets jammed with new automobiles, on the white stone and plate glass of tall buildings; it gave life and movement to the lavishly plumed hats of the well-dressed wives of the prosperous on their way to tea at Sanborn's. But the scene was deceptive. The new President knew it, would have to face...
Long affiliated with the labor movement, Budenz once edited "Labor Age," organ for the AFL and the mine workers' union. He was arrested and acquitted twenty different times for participation in anti-injunction activity, and modestly remarks that he was probably the "best informed man" on personalities in the left wing...
PITTSBURGH, December 8--The back-to-work movement of the United Mine Workers, after a 17-day walkout that spread slow paralysis through a large part of the nation's economic system, gained momentum tonight with many miners voting to resume their jobs tomorrow...