Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writer has stood in the wing of the bridge with his oilskins drawn tightly about him, held securely by a "body and soul" lashing, his so'wester pulled down over his eyes while the rain beat an incessant tattoo upon his face patiently waiting for eight bells to strike so that in the quiet seclusion of his room, he could have a pleasant social visit with Mark Twain, Kenneth Roberts or a glance at TIME or FORTUNE before he turned over to sleep. All this, of course, while the gale raged and howled outside his comfortable quarters...
...greatest surviving King, George VI. At sailing time, however, it looked as if a petty king of U. S. labor were going to have the best of puissant George VI, for the Coronation-bound passengers were aboard ship but their Coronation costumes were dock-bound by a strike of some 300 baggage wallopers called out by President Joseph P. Ryan of the International Longshoremen's Association...
With the cream of its Coronation passenger crop aboard the Queen Mary, Cunard White Star acted quickly. A telephone call to Montreal, and Independent Union longshoremen were shooed off the Alaunia and the Andania loading there. Mr. Ryan called off his strike and within a few minutes 1,800 happy travelers were bound for the Coronation. Within two hours Independent Union men were back at work on the Alaunia and Andania, and I.L.A. was again out on strike in Manhattan. A serious strike was threatened with Cunard White Star (and also Furness-Withy Lines) caught between the millstones of warring...
Whoever wrote that interesting editorial on Mayor La Guardia must have great faith in politicians who ride into office as "reformers". Perhaps he never heard of the Taxi Strike when the mayor allowed union thugs to beat up American citizens on the streets, so publicly that current news reels showed such atrocities with the police standing by, complying with the mayor's orders. The same mayor led a crusade against honest utility companies so that he might tell the ignorant masses that he had reduced their gas bills. Hardly any legislation advocated by communists has lacked his support. Finally...
Since the Model War plans were reported just before the Peace strike, it was at first thought that they intended their festivities to go on at the same time. But no word has since been heard...