Word: pinkertons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...July morning in 1892, a tug chugged up the Monongahela, towing two barges with a deadly cargo: 300 pistols, 250 Winchester rifles and a hired army of 316 Pinkerton men. Where Andrew Carnegie's Homestead mill sprawled along the south bank of the river, the barges beached. That was enemy territory, defended by a cannon, spiked clubs, small arms, and a force of strikers 10,000 strong. Hostilities began at once. One fusillade from the barges dropped 30 defenders, but not one Pinkerton got ashore. Homestead's striking mill hands had won the opening skirmish of a labor...
...Wolff's balanced but pedestrian account ranks the Homestead strike as one of the most disgraceful chapters in the history of U.S. labor-management relations. Neither side produced a real hero, but both sides produced plenty of villains. The strikers turned ugly, on one occasion beat seven injured Pinkerton men to death. Andrew Carnegie, a public friend and private enemy of union labor, scuttied off to Europe before the strike began. Henry Clay Frick, his partner, was left to do all the dirty work-and he did it willingly. Prick's strategy was to break the strongest union...
William M. Pinkerton, News Officer for the University, said yesterday that "I myself would consider the appointment of the Dean of the Medical School to be" one of the most important news stories to come out of Harvard in ten years...
William H. Tobey, the University's photographer, has been taking photographs to "document" the story for a week. Only University news officer William M. Pinkerton, an assistant and Tobey know the story. News office employees, sometimes privy to "secrets," have been elaborately kept from learning the nature of the news...
...Olympic Games -so often that foreign spectators and athletes caught themselves whistling its familiar strains. "But it's not The Star-Spangled Banner," an Italian insisted defensively. "It's from the first act of Madame Butterfly." At that, it did seem a little reminiscent of Lieut. Pinkerton's visit to Japan. Over the first seven days of the XVIII Olympiad, smashing 10 world and 18 Olympic records in the process, the greatest group of athletes ever assembled under any flag achieved one of the most amazing conquests in the gaudy history of sport...