Word: storms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...describe blackened eyes & scratched faces during a picket v. strikebreakers' brawl at Hazleton, Pa., the pricking of several women with hatpins at nearby Nanticoke. No one was killed, no one was hospitalized. More important than any demonstration was the fact that some employers welcomed the strike as a storm which might settle the dust of disorganization, and others got down to business by forming an association of their own, not to combat Mr. Hillman's T. W. O. C. but to deal with it in friendly fashion...
...police had no authority to limit the number of pickets. The police argument that the marchers intended to storm Republic's plant was "groundless...
...slum parson, lived in a dugout reputed to have been shared by Samson & Delilah. And So-Victoria, his first novel, was written in his father-in-law's historic house in Wales, in a London house once occupied by Samuel Pepys, on a freighter during a bad storm, and in Goliad, Texas, where relatives live. At 23 the editor of a London tabloid, he retired from newspaper work after blowing up as assistant editor of Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express. A great-grandfather designed London's National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, hobnobbed with the Duke...
...midmorning to Arkansas' Capitol to lie in state, thence to the First Methodist Church where his funeral sermon was solemnly pronounced. Thunderheads were gathering as his casket was carried from the church. At Roselawn Cemetery his body was committed to the earth in the midst of an electric storm with lightning crashing and 2,000 mourners standing drenched in the rain...
...week later): The Coroner in two days receives 500 telephone calls demanding an investigation, many a hot letter, "the greatest storm of public protest and public interest I have ever seen." Agents Kelly & Regan are haled before the Coroner's jury. An eyewitness testifies that after Mueller fell, Agent Kelly jumped on his legs & feet, Regan on his head; that the two men waited for the police only after heated persuasion by witnesses: that at the station house where Mueller was first taken he was cursed by policemen, buffeted about, refused medical treatment for an hour-and-a-half...