Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...popular wayside refreshment house the lampshades are adorned with the names and sentiments of present-day New Englanders. The appelations "Cookie," "Ducky," "Sandra Teetis," "Herman Milankoskywitz" strike the onlooker with a display of colors, varied handwriting, and added hieroglyphics. Beside the carefully letted name of "Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, stands a little message that will cause the historians of the next century to stroke their wisdom teeth in wonderment: "President Conant loves Marlene Dictrich...
Alcatraz, gloomy fortress on an island in San Francisco Bay is the Federal Government's stronghold for hardened offenders. At Alcatraz trouble started last week when 23 prisoners refused to leave their cells to work. One hundred of the 280 inmates went on strike. When Warden James A. Johnston went to the prison mess-hall during inspection, Convict Burton Phillips, serving a life term for kidnapping, jumped on the 63-year-old warden from behind. Before guards could help him, Warden Johnston had been knocked down and savagely beaten...
While other popular explanations of the week ranged from a theory that the market crack was another 1906 "rich man's panic" to the notion that it was a "capital strike" against the New Deal, one fact became increasingly clear: whether or not pessimism over fall business prospects was at the root of the market's drop, the market's drop had certainly dragged down fall business prospects...
...upper classes, not sharing in the activities of many. But by the same token the "popularity" men who do nothing but outside activities are likely to find at the end of their careers that they have missed something too. And so the most important task is to strike a satisfactory working balance between academic and outside occupations. And it is in helping Freshmen to find that balance that the meeting last night...
Francis Keppel '38, President of the Student Council, closed the meeting, with a plea that Freshmen try and strike a good balance between activities and scholarship, declaring that both were invaluable to the Harvard student...