Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Mr. Steelman began his labors, 340,000 soft-coal miners in nine Appalachian coal States had been off their jobs since April i, but they technically were not on strike. Last week this pretense was abandoned. In 17 more States (principally in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Colorado) 125,000 more Lewis miners stopped work at a word from him. In Pennsylvania, 100,000 hard-coal miners were ready to go out this week, should anthracite operators prove as stubborn as their bituminous brothers had been...
...keep his men at work under a temporary extension of their old agreement, pending further talk about his demands. The operators refused, insisted upon a two-year renewal of their old agreement without change. Nettled by this response from men with whom he had dealt amicably for years, angry Mr. Lewis reasoned that railways, banks, steel companies control many a coal mine. "Obviously," he growled, "the interference of outside interests has stopped an agreement...
Last week an eastern waterfront character named Jacob ("Beacon Jack") Lichter appeared in & around Boston. At Everett, one of Boston's seaport suburbs Mr. Lichter shortly appeared in effigy (see cut). He was deemed worth hanging by C. I. 0. seamen who, having called a strike on Standard Oil Tankers, took it for granted that "Beacon Jack" was around to recruit strike breakers...
Most popular foreign democratic statesman in Germany since last September has been British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. To many Germans who suddenly realized last autumn that war was very close, Mr. Chamberlain appeared as a hero who flew to Germany (three times) bringing much-desired peace. Two popular German picture post cards after the crisis showed Mr. Chamberlain and Herr Hitler together, one before the Dreesen Hotel in Godesberg, the other with the ruins of Godesburg Castle in the background...
Although British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had promised that recently inaugurated conscription measures would be applied in Northern Ireland only in time of national emergency, Mr. de Valera demanded that it be forsworn completely. Even the imperialist London Times observed editorially that this sort of fight was just "the kind which Irishmen love" and urged that it be settled "before it gives serious trouble." Result was that last week Mr. Chamberlain backed down completely, announced that as a "recognition of Northern Ireland's patriotism" recruits for the British Army there would be limited to a volunteer reserve tank unit...