Word: ruckuses
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...keel. By his night flight General Johnson had not only patched up a strike truce but had also hornswoggled out of Capital & Labor a high-sounding agreement to keep the peace while he did his NRA job. Almost overnight the Pennsylvania coal strike had flared up from a local ruckus in Fayette County to a national menace. Trouble started with H. C. Frick Coke Co., a subsidiary of U. S. Steel Corp. A few thousand Frick workers joined the United Mine Workers of America and struck in protest against the formation of company unions. The issue was whether...
...walls of "commercial minded" people exclusively for the past year. Rivera's next commission after the RCA Building was a "Forge and Foundry" mural for General Motors Corp. at its building in Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition (see p. 14). After the Rivera-Rockefeller ruckus, General Motors paused to consider what it had better...
...Vincent Coll incident caused a new ruckus. Publisher Kobler, startled by the implication that Winchell was privy to the councils of murderers, barred colyumist & secretary from any part of the Mirror building save their own small office...
...explained how some of last week's British riots were organized by his scouts (not Boy Scouts) scrawling directions on the sidewalks, how the N. U. W. M. fooled the police by starting false mass meetings at the opposite end of towns from the scene of intended ruckus...
...went in to the little town of Invergordon where the Navy has a large recreation hut and British brewers have a number of very large pubs. Soon officers in their wardrooms on the ship heard disquieting news. A group of Irish sailors from the mighty Rodney were raising a ruckus in the Navy canteen, damning the pay cuts, threatening mutiny, singing "The Red Flag...