Word: sixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wangled loans for the bankrupt International union from commercial banks. After he became president of the International in 1932, Dubinsky got his real chance in the New Deal. Seeing NRA coming, Dubinsky had softened up the industry with quick, organizational strikes, picked up 160,000 new members in six months. When NRA was nullified by the Supreme Court, Dubinsky announced that he would strike any employer who tried to back out of its agreements. Says he slyly: "First you get a whip, and then when everyone knows you have it, put it in the refrigerator...
...Soviet Citizeness Strelkach, who was thrown into a Belgrade prison in March of this year, was summoned every night for questioning for 22 successive days...Six times she was thrown into a cell with only enough room to stand...
Advice from Napoleon. This week the delegates broke up into six committees, which would accomplish whatever concrete work the Council was capable of. The committees would have a chance to agree on recommendations for: Europe's economy, social security, common European nationality and passport, joint public works (possibly including the old Jules Vernean dream of a tunnel under the Channel), and changes in the political structure of Europe to achieve greater unity...
...Soviet Citizen Dodonov...was suddenly dismissed from a factory for 'political reasons'...systematically beaten...kept on his feet without moving for 20 days...Soviet Citizeness Demidenko...received no food for six days...was beaten on the feet with clubs in an attempt to wring an admission from her that she had gathered some sort of information for the U.S.S.R...
...Communist attempt to oust his government. At the undersea coal mines at Lota, south of Santiago, hundreds of strikers (according to official reports) tried to seize the mines. There were also walkouts in the nitrate and copper mines of northern Chile. Again moving quickly, Gonzalez sent armed forces into six strike-hit provinces with orders to take over mines and communications and isolate the strike areas...