Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resist the Sit-Down with "the full resources of the State," leaped to the rescue of Thermoid's involuntary sitters, had State troopers convoy a truckload of food and bedding to them. When the sheriff declared himself unable to enforce a court decree ordering the strikers to stop interfering with the company's operations, Governor Hoffman dispatched 30 blue-clad State troopers to stand guard...
...employes, its officials decided to reopen the Thermoid Rubber Co. plant near Trenton, closed since April 8 by a strike of United Rubber Workers. Returning workers were hooted and stoned by picketers, and when they sent out the first truckload of their products, the 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...
Governor Browning never got to the conference of Southern Governors. Next day. besieged by politicians, he fled back to Tennessee. At Knoxville, his first stop, he was of course reminded that Knoxville's Captain A. Mitchell Long, lawyer and politician, would make a fine Senator. The newspapers told him that Nashville's Albert H. Roberts, ex-Governor of Tennessee, had publicly proposed himself for the job. Many others pressed claims privately. At week's end Senator Bachman's sudden taking off was mourned by no one more than Governor Gordon Browning...
...started in, I took a little potato soup without any grease. That learned me my lesson. I nearly died, it made me so sick. That was just the Lord punishing me for my disobedience. . . . I started this fast at the call of the Lord, and I'll not stop until He tells...
...that the University, the House masters as well as University Hall, recognize that it has an intolerable situation on its hands. With hundreds of students up in arms because they cannot share in the advantages of the House Plan, it is obvious that some action, even if only a stop-gap solution should be take to salve the justly wounded students who have been left unplaced...