Word: picket
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousands of men, were lost - dispersed, melted, evaporated; a war in which there were no real battles, only raids and affrays and massacres, as the result of which countries as large as England or France changed hands to and fro; a war of flags on the map, of picket lines, of cavalry screens advancing or receding by hundreds of miles without solid cause or durable consequence; a war with little valour and no mercy." The Significance. In the preface to his ebullient history Chancellor of the Exchequer Churchill insists that "all the opinions expressed are purely personal and commit...
...General John Joseph Pershing's cousin. With the Loray mill shut down 90% and the streets of Gastonia filled with restless, jeering strikers, Governor Max Gardner ordered out five companies (200 men) of state militia. The Gastonia howitzer company cleared the streets, suppressed incipient riots, broke up picket lines...
...organization, is just returned from a summer spent in New Bedford where he was engaged in the bitter struggle carried on by the New Bedford Textile Council against the ten percent wage cut which the textile bosses attempted to enforce last spring. He was arrested four times on the picket line. The officers who will compose the executive force are J. H. Weiss 3L, vice-president, and A. H. Kalish 2G, secretary. Weiss was prominent in undergraduate politics a few years ago when he organized the Harvard LaFollette Club, subsequently becoming president of that organization in 1924. Kalish has spent...
...test came last week. Armed with a court decision, police dispersed picket lines at three mills (Whitman, Nonquit, Nashawena). By afternoon of the same day, radicals had defied the order against mass picketing, dared police to make arrests. Chief of Police McLeod took the dare, commandeered patrol wagons, moving carts, one ludicrous piano van. He packed 256 picketeers off to headquarters. Citizens noted that 237 of the 256 belonged to the Weisbord element...
...Palmer was harking back to 1914, when the Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. properties were the scene of bloodshed. Mr. Rockefeller has no interest in the Columbine property (Rocky Mountain Fuel Co.). Nevertheless, Wobbly Palmer's cry echoed in far Manhattan, where Communists appeared with accusing placards* to picket the Standard Oil Building at No. 26 Broadway. Clerks, steel workers from a new skyscraper, pugnacious office boys fell upon and manhandled the demonstrators...