Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...determined Lieutenant-General John Greer Dill, newly appointed Military Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Palestine, and the arrival at Haifa of a thousand British troops daily, there began with a vengeance the British Government's "mopping-up campaign" against Arabs who five months ago declared a general strike and began raising Ned in general to protest against Jewish immigration. In a brisk clash last week near Jenin between Arab citizens and British land & air forces, 53 Arabs and one British soldier were killed. All over the country Arabs were arrested, charged with carrying firearms & throwing bombs...
...Columbia, as President Nicholas Murray Butler's academic procession made its solemn way across the Morningside campus, a dozen striking members of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers, armed with placards shrieking that COLUMBIA IS UNFAIR TO THE PAINTERS' UNION, wheeled impudently into the rear of the procession, followed it to McMillin Academic Theatre where they stayed outside to picket. Meanwhile in another corner of the campus the radical American Student Union planned to hold a mass meeting, incite Columbia students to strike from their classes unless Dr. Butler and Dean Herbert Hawkes reinstated Junior Robert Burke...
...also know what he was doing when he boarded the subway for Cambridge, but strange to say the appearance and dress of the Harvard man also strike him as "very interesting...
...affairs, with feline animosities dictating destiny, and candidates being made and broken by the jealousies of dignitaries' wives, is bound to bring reminiscences, of similar doings off the stage. But is is not at all necessary to the success of the play that the polotical and social innuendo strike home. The fascinating tangles of the plot and the satire wrapped up in it, are quite sufficient. Jane Cowl, aspiring all the time to the first ladyship, throws the political impetus to her loathed rival's husband, thinking thereby to tie her down to a deadweight and keep her from taking...
...time had come, decided the Democratic Presidential nominee last week, to break his silence on the Red issue, simultaneously strike a hard blow at his prime journalistic foe. A new Hearst campaign against him, he learned, was to begin on Sunday. Few hours after his return to the White House from Harvard on Saturday, the President issued a strategic statement over the signature of his Assistant Secretary Stephen Early...