Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strikers tossed more rocks to stop it. Returning tear-gas bombs, police charged into battle. The scuffle stopped when the truck retreated into the plant. The strikers jeered the sheriff when he appeared to read the Riot Act. For safety's sake, the non-union workers decided to stay inside...
...cream bricks to the combatants. One striker went into combat eating ice cream with his left hand, swinging a club with his right. The riot lasted for an hour and a half. Finally a union leader rushed to a sound truck, and proposed a truce: the canneries would stay closed for the day if the pickets would disperse. They did, but some 50 men were injured, including John Drake, expected to die of head wounds, two others in danger of losing eyes, many peppered with slugs...
...Party of impeached President Gómez, who spent the winter attending exhibition baseball games with ostentatious humility, suddenly spurted with a violent manifesto characterizing Acting-President Laredo Bru as "a decorative figure and a phantom, imprisoned in the palace as a legal fiction," and demanding that the Army stay clear of the elections for the Constituent Assembly. Grizzled, conservative old General Mario Menocal, vice president and smarting under his finessing by Republican Gómez in last year's Batistafied election, finished grinding sugar at his central (mill) in Camagüey and turned up in Havana...
...Italy as a gay people is no more. Cafes close at ten . . . and when they do stay open later it's because of American trade . . . prices are going up and so are taxes, yet Mussolini wants more babies . . . Italy lost over 20,000 of her finest men at Abysinnia and fighting is still going on. Life is tense here: one gets the impression--especially when you talk with the young people--that this is just an anxious period of waiting before the great conflagration. And they are so stuffed with propaganda they think Italy will one day rule the world...
Avukah, American Student Zionist Federation, announces the opening of competition for its Third Annual Palestine Work Fellowships. The awards provide for a year's stay in Palestine, chiefly in the collective settlements; first hand opportunity is also given for observing the new developments in Palestine and the workings of the Histadrut, or General Federation of Labor...