Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They had heard that, as the result of a strike last summer (TIME, Sept. 9), the company was transferring all union workers to the night shift. Then the night shift would be discontinued for a while and the union workers got rid of. "Now, men," Sheriff Adkins says he said, "You will have to stand back and let anybody through that wants to come to work." Someone in the crowd shouted: "Over our dead bodies, then!" A day shift man shouldered his way through the crowd toward the mill gate. The crowd surged to hold him back. It was then...
Senator Moses, another important Hooverizer, "urged me to make a big navy speech in Boston during the Hoover campaign to fool the simple Irish," said Shearer. This was undenied...
Frank Billings Kellogg, Coolidge Secretary of State, was dragged in. Said Shearer: "'Nervous Nellie' Kellogg called the Bethlehem crowd on the mat and told them that the $15,000,000 war profiteering case against their company would be pressed unless I was fired...
...document," unsigned, was said in London to be "a lark, a joke, a squib" perpetrated in 1919 by Samuel Kerkham Ratcliffe, British publicist, and "planted" on Shearer...
...Ledbetter Lee "is Mr. Rockefeller's publicity agent and Mr. Schwab's publicity agent and, I believe, the British Government's publicity agent," said Shearer. "They paid him $150,000 to keep the navy and merchant marine situation before the public, but they got very little or nothing out of it. I was the only man that ever gave them service...