Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last night I watched a newsreel in which Ed. Thorgerson was the sports spokesman. J showed New York's Nazifoe opening the event. His Honor threw a ball down the alley traveled smoothly and squarely down the boards to end in an eminently satisfactory strike...
Mayor LaGuardia's ball opening the Congress knocked down one pin. With practice he later improved his form, recorded a strike for the newsreels...
...idea has been advanced that this is legislation intended to prevent strikes and thereby prevent impeding commerce. Let me read a few lines from the Act itself: 'Nothing in this Act shall be construed so as to impede or diminish in .any way the right to strike.' So I think we may start with the idea that the Labor Board Act is not one to prohibit strikes...
...wife charging that he had lavished a small fortune on a blonde artists' model, asking $1,000 per week alimony. Given this new idea of his wealth, Mr. Christensen's 400 employes promptly decided that he could afford to pay them better wages, walked out on strike. Up in a big black limousine drove Mrs. Christensen to cheer on the strikers, march for an hour in their picket line. Said Mr. Christensen, peering from behind his office curtains, "She is most unreasonable and uncivil. ... I haven't any such money . . . there isn't any such money...
...fitting time to settle a bitter strike is not on a fine fresh morning, nor on a sultry afternoon. It is after the shades of night have fallen, when fatigue and strain have weakened the obstinacy of men, and peace, like sleep, comes to knit up the raveled sleeve of contention. In all respects but one the settlement of the Chrysler automobile strike was thus fitting. After 9 o'clock the evening of the eleventh day of negotiation, Governor Frank Murphy emerged from a smoke-filled office at Lansing to announce that agreement had been reached. Shortly before midnight...