Word: skirmishers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scale the palings around the dock. Like a frightened gazelle, our hero, resourceful as ever, ran to the end of the float, pushed the log into the middle of the stream, untied the Leviathan, and pushed off just as the enemy swarmed over the fence and advanced in skirmish formation. Paddling vigorously with his hands, he was soon in midstream, and was nearing his prize when of a sudden his progress was stopped, for unhappily he had forgotten to untie the stern of the boat...
...Many a skirmish had been required to net Leader Gorman this result. At Warren, R. I., 1,000 strikers stormed a mill after a policeman struck a union official. At Augusta, Ga., two Enterprise Mill pickets were wounded and one killed when a policeman, trampled by strikers, fired from the ground. At Bridgeport, Pa., strikers forced entrance to a mill, broke a woman's leg. At Greenville, S. C. one man and four women were clubbed, kicked and mauled in scrimmages with deputies. At Fall River, Mass., Radical Ann Burlak. "The Red Flame,'' was forbidden to hold a meeting...
Last week in the Legislatures of almost every state in the Union, in almost every town, city and county in the land, a local utility skirmish was in hot progress. Lower rates, municipal ownership, more stringent regulation, supervision of holding companies were the principal issues. In the Press, utility men were replacing banksters as the favorite object of abuse. But unlike banksters, who suffered in silence, utility men were hitting back. With power production climbing to 1931 levels, their cause was worth the fight...
...fiercest skirmish in the, utility war last week was being fought in New York State. There in behalf of his reform program Governor Herbert H. Lehman had been quick to press a tactical advantage handed him by the Federal Trade Commission's revelation of letters written to Associated Gas & Electric Co. by a State Senator who was a member of the powerful Public Service Committee and its one-time chairman (TIME, April 9). Alleged letters from bumbling State Senator Warren T. Thayer were discovered, in which the writer hoped that his services had been "satisfactory" to the big holding...
...down of the automobile industry, its prize child of Recovery, would be a severe blow. The strike question therefore became a three-cornered battle in which the Administration might give aid and comfort to either side provided a showdown could be pre vented. Fortnight ago here was a preliminary skirmish when the A. F. of L. Automobile Workers' Union demanded a 20% wage increase and recognition. Last week the opening gun of the battle was fired by the National Automobile Chamber of Com merce. After a two-day session in Detroit the Chamber issued a manifesto declaring that...