Word: sayes
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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...
...told Marthy, thank God a man who believeth in Jesus Christ is not dead. "We know that we are not very high in society, but God loves us. ... O, what would Jesus say if he passed through Marion? He's weepin' at all this scenery." At Gastonia. The Marion murders gave North Carolina its sixth textile tangle now current in the courts. One of the other trials, that of 16 workers accused of murdering the police chief of Gastonia, got going again last week at Charlotte after repeated delays (TIME, Sept. 23). The 16 defendants, mostly Northern organizers...
...Heard Rear-Admiral Hugh Rodman, U. S. N. retired, say: "There is little or no use in having an inferior navy. You might just as well expect a lame mule to win the Kentucky Derby...
...Cubs finished fourth in 1926 and 1927, third in 1928 and this year won by so wide a margin that the last month of the schedule was an empty formality. Now baseball teams make or lose money according to whether they win or lose games. It is safe to say that for the last three years the Chicago team has shown a profit. This year, playing to 1,500,000 patrons in Chicago alone, the team must have been returning a profit on its investment at which General Motors or Standard Oil would probably turn enviously green. When his team...
...There are critics abroad who say that France is blocking land disarmament. Yet no country has consented to disarmament as fully as France when she decided to reduce her period of compulsory military service from three years to a year...