Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perjury. Picketing injunctions had been flagrantly violated. Though severely stoned on several occasions, the New York City police have given a demonstration of strike work which might well be studied by Chicago. One day last week 2,000 strikers & sympathizers sat down on streetcar tracks outside a Brooklyn police station, refused to budge. As soon as one sit-downer was removed, another took his place. Women fought, scratched, screamed. Policemen finally sent the sit-downers scrambling. At week's end 20 C. I. O. unions pledged $100,000 war chest to carry on against the "miniature Tom Girdlers...
Nevertheless, the Scripps-Howard New York World-Telegram solemnly warned: "The New Deal Can't Afford This ... it is not illegal but it certainly is improper. ..." Newshawks recalled that Charley's client's Station WLW ("The Nation's Station") is currently in bad grace with some members of the all-powerful Federal Communications Commission, particularly Commissioner George Henry Payne. But WLW got a routine extension of its increased power grant just after it hired Charley Michelson...
...Speer inquest in 1934. He had spent the night of May 25 with his wife at the Eagle Hotel in Keene, N. H., 30 mi. from Greenfield. He had not worn a long coat that night and did not own one. District Attorney David Keedy called a Keene filling station proprietor to testify that Mr. Elder, wearing a coat "down to his calves," had bought eight gallons of gasoline from him at seven o'clock that night. He introduced an Eagle Hotel chambermaid who expressed her opinion that half of the Elders' double bed had not been slept...
Some 48 hours after Policeman Kelly's stabbing, Sergeant Harry Fairbanks nodded in the Tallahassee police station. A gun in his ribs roused him. He saw "two short men and two stout men" wearing flour sacks over their heads a la Ku Klux Klan. Ordered to the county jail, Sergeant Fairbanks knew what was expected of him. He had the keys which would lead through six locked but unguarded cell doors to Richard Hawkins and Ernest Ponder...
...Kiyoshi Kazuki grew tired of what seemed to him the stubborn slowness of Chinese forces to yield to his demands that they clear out of North China (TIME, July 26). In an action which Japanese officials described as "maintaining prestige," General Kazuki had Japanese airmen heavily bomb Langfang, a station between Peiping and Tientsin on the railway from which area he was insisting that the Chinese 29th Army withdraw...