Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newspaperman to report a big Labor trial, became a Roman Catholic soon afterward. Seldom does he figure in the news, but midwestern Labor and employers account him their best and most active mediator. He helped settle the long, bloody Kohler of Kohler (plumbing) strike in Wisconsin five years ago, has calmed many another row before it reached the headlines. Now sixtyish, he is a husky six-footer with a lined, full face, a kindly smile, a soothing voice. "If all priests were like you, I'd never have left the church," he was assured by Labor's late...
...intersections were marked only by thin crosses cut in the black paper masking their traffic lights. Dim blue bulbs picked out busses and subway entrances. Lord Halifax, returning across Downing Street from No. 10 to the Foreign Office after a night broadcast, could not find the keyhole, had to strike matches. In Hyde Park, antiaircraft crews stood by their guns through the small hours. Frank Frewin Pinnock, 50, a London businessman arrested for reckless driving after a motor crash, pleaded "a mental blackout...
Labor. He attacked the General Strike (1926) as a Bolshevik conspiracy. For ten years he denounced Socialism as the source of all post-War troubles...
...Fish left together in groups get to know one another personally," wrote Dr. Noble in the Collecting Net* last week, "even where there are no sexual or individual external differences which the human eye can distinguish. [They form] social hierarchies. One fish can strike a second fish without being struck in return, and the second has the same right of 'passing the blow' to a third individual. These . . . 'pecking orders' owe their existence not to strength but to psychic factors, such as the period of residence in an area. . . . Many fish devote most of their energies...
Fortnight ago, while the more conservative Metropolitan Milk Producers Bargaining Agency (45,000 members) was asking the Federal-State administrator to up the price of Class I milk from $2.25 to $2.82, Archie Wright took a bolder step. He announced D. F. U. was going to strike, not only against present prices, but against the whole "blended price" system. His demand: that farmers be paid $2.35 per cwt. no matter what use was made of milk. So war was declared...