Word: scabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign in advance of his arrival. On his 65th birthday the tall, tired, silver-haired Scot breakfasted at No. 10 Downing Street, then dashed to Seaham, began the bitterest campaign of his life. "Blackleg!"', a few hostile Laborites shouted at him (equivalent to U. S. union men crying "Scab...
Ladies' Night. One of the most violent evenings was all for the ladies. While striking telephone operators in the centre of Barcelona flung brickbats and shrilled curses at their scab sisters in the central offices, Barcelona's Civil Governor decided that the time was ripe to raid some of the music halls on the Paralelo, Barcelona's trolley terminus and rowdiest thoroughfare, at the foot of towering Montjuich. Here, he had been informed, female entertainers were celebrating the liberty of the Republic by dancing in the raw. Po licemen looking strangely British in scarlet tunics and blue...
President Baker favored discontinuance of classes (to avoid strife between the strikers and some 75 "scab" students). Next day the faculty recommended that classes be resumed. About half of the students went back to their books. For the time being. Washington & Jefferson was quiet...
Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: a hardheaded, rough, ruggedly sincere and able legislator who wants to be a regular Republican, but whose strong convictions often carry him to the insurgent ranks; a wealthy man who often votes against the desires of the wealthy, hence is called "the scab millionaire," who has been only slightly softened by eight years of Washington social life.-ED. "Goodnight, dear heart...