Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both sides of the issue were admirably stated by Mr. Justice Holmes in connection with the establishment of martial law during the great 1904 strike of the United Mine Workers in Colorado (212 U. S. at 85): "No doubt there are cases where the expert on the sport may be called upon to justify his conduct later in court, notwithstanding the fact that he had gole command at the time and acted to the best of his knowledge...
Even during peace, martial law has sometimes been established in regions terrorized by violence. Whole counties in Colorado, Idaho, and Montana have been placed under martial law during large mining strikes. In the East, reglina in Pennsylvania were under martial law during the Homestead Strike of 1877 and the Anthracite Strike of 1902. Disastrous floods last spring made it necessary for the Army to take complete charge in Cincinnati, Louisville, and other cities along the Ohio River...
...bouncing ball just happened to strike square on the toe of my shoe in stride...
...Episcopalians to its meetings. But since Episcopalians are prone to be tolerant and easygoing, they presumably were not affected by what Norman Thomas and others told them. The C. L. I. D.'s Executive Secretary Spofford told reporters that the General Convention had stalled a Cincinnati drugstore strike: "The picket line was effective until this convention arrived, but the girls tell me the church people go right through, particularly the clergy. Lay people see a bishop or a clergyman go in, think it's all right and follow...
...Perkins are undoubtedly fit subjects for the lampooner's art, and the caricatures of them are skillfully drawn. But the President is scarcely touched when an entirely different person walks about more or less in his likeness, although the making him out as a happy-go-lucky experimenter does strike close to home. Horse-laughs evoked at the expense of Cordell Hull and Chief Justice Hughes, the one docked out as an idiotic jester and the other as a dwarfish lecher, don't deserve to be called even crude. Mr. Kaufman should have seen that some people are not subject...