Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House recoiled from this nose punch, Mr. Chamberlain tried to strike a more cheerful note by declaring that he would show no mercy to tax-avoiders, who deprive the Exchequer of millions of dollars each year. This raised a cheer but the House soon relapsed into gloom...
Angry building unions threatened to call a strike unless Premier Blum, who has pruned his budget down to a minimum, revises his finances, sets aside at least six billion francs ($265,800,000) for a public works program...
...20th edition. The book advises young men "to sow plenty of wild oats." "not to love their wives too much when finally they marry." Other Blum tenets for successful marriage are: "Don't marry for love. . . ." Men should have sexual adventures, "otherwise married life soon will strike them as insipid and monotonous" though "it is better to choose love affairs before marriage than after." Women are not ready for marriage before 30 because until then they are in "a polygamous state...
...little Mauchs were acting on radio and posing for ads in their spare time. Their jobs were comparatively easy because whenever one felt unlike working the other took his place. By the time they got their Warner contract in 1935, the Mauchs had had experience on programs like Lucky Strike. Show Boat and THE MARCH OF TIME. After Anthony Adverse, Bobby Mauch was cast in Penrod & Sam. Again he and Billy took turns acting and. standing-in. When Warners drew up a new contract, Mrs. Mauch refused to let one son perform as stand-in for the other...
...young man who had become director of the hospital only six months prior, had dismissed her because she was trying to unionize the employes, Mrs. Rhatigan began an organization campaign which culminated in March when 200 cooks, dishwashers, laundresses, electricians, slop women and orderlies put on a sit-down strike in the hospital's kitchens, pantries and ice plant. Babies cried because their wet diapers were not changed. Doctors and nurses were obliged to go to public restaurants for their meals. After eight hours, police broke up the strike by throwing the help in jail following a stiff scrimmage...