Word: reopening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scene of shooting, clubbing, screaming, money-grabbing, hacking with axes, punitive bonfires. Huey P. Long, youthful, tempestuous, theatrical, newly-installed Governor of Louisiana, had been busying himself with whirlwind reforms in various departments of the State, when he heard that two St. Bernard gambling houses had dared to reopen despite his warning. He issued and personally taxied with an order to the Adjutant General to call out a raiding party of the National Guard. The offending establishments, facing each other in the same street, were the Jai-Alai* Fronton and the Arabi Clubs. The guardsmen approached. A lookout fired...
...interests in West Virginia, the same charge that had previously been laid upon Mr. Mellon's company and other Pittsburgh operators, namely, violation of a wage agreement, in spirit if not in letter. The method used, he said, had been to shut down the mines for a time, then reopen them and offer work to non-union men at wages below the agreed union scale. These moves by the Schwab and Rockefeller companies, Bittner declared, were what had driven the Pittsburgh operators to adopt like measures, to meet the price competition...
...Pennsylvania Coal Co., in whose No. 6 mine the feud started, agreed to reopen the mine, which had been closed for two months, to give idle hands peaceful occupation. The idle miners met, voted to stay idle...
...When Maya (TIME, Mar. 5) was offered to playgoers, some one of them apparently found, in its glum survey of a poetized prostitute, the touch of pitch. Last week the wardens of the peace, in the dreary discharge of their duties, promised to arrest any one who attempted to reopen the play after it had been removed from the stage. It was removed...
...Phillips Brooks House will reopen its fall clothing drive today in an attempt to increase the insufficient harvest yielded last week. There is a greater demand upon the social service department for discarded garments than ever previously, and the failure of the first collection campaign to reach the quota has made an unprecedented situation...