Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nine Pennsylvania "captive" coal miners, scrubbed clean, hesitant, impressed but not overawed, were shown into the President's office last week. Some 20,000 of their colleagues were still on strike, in spite of the President's conference with their employers week before which guaranteed them the "checkoff" system an< union recognitions (TIME, Nov. 6). Before they quit striking, they wanted to be sure that the forthcoming election to select their representatives would be run on the square, that the operators would introduce no "ringers." General Johnson and President Roosevelt agreed to send National Labor Board representatives...
...spite of the splendid support of a five-piece band, which formed a "D" and played a funeral march between the halves, Dunster House was defeated in its annual grudge game with the Lowell Bellboys, by the score of 13-0, yesterday afternoon. In the other league game, Eliot House downed Kirkland House...
...third time in two years, John Farmer was supposed to go on strike last week. And in many a bleak Midwestern county he did so, with right goodwill. In spite of announcement by the strike's fomenter, wild-haired, bespectacled Milo Reno, that "instructions were issued that there was not to be any picketing," John Farmer went out on the highways to turn back city-bound shipments of foodstuffs. Iowa, seat of the Farmers Holiday Association, was the scene of widespread picketing. A man driving a truckload of cattle into Sioux City was badly beaten. Governor Herring called...
...scarcity raises farm prices; to buy nothing unnecessary, to pay no debts or taxes, to fight evictions. Because the Federal farm program-based on 1909-14 price parities between industrial and farm products- has not provided prices as high as his, because farmers are still losing their homes in spite of the Farm Credit Administration, at Shenandoah, Iowa Milo Reno was enthusiastically cheered when he described the Agricultural Adjustment Act as "diabolical." He demanded the resignation of Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace. "Wallace's education and association with Wall Street have made him what he is today. Wallace...
...automobile production, even allowing for a proportional seasonal decline, dropped to 46 although its average for the last quarter was well on the sunny side of 60. ¶Electric power output fell to 1,618,000,000 kilowatt hours compared to 1,663,000,000 last quarter in spite of the fact that a seasonal increase would be normal...