Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Norman Thomas spoke not at Stanford, as TIME reported, but at the University of California, where a crowd of 5,000 striking students cut their 11 o'clock classes to hear him and several student speakers. The demonstration was largest in the U. S. No Veterans of Future Wars paraded. Only song was All Hail with which all University meetings are closed. The many police present proved unnecessary as the strike was conducted along orderly parliamentary lines. Only through a misunderstanding due largely to the absence of President Robert G. Sproul was the demonstration held just off the campus...
...Jerusalem worried High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope took time off from the Arab-Jewish riots that have plagued Jerusalem for a month to meet Haile Selassie at the station platform. A strike had tied up every taxi in the Holy City, but union leaders made a concession by permitting ten cabs to transfer the Royal party from the station to the King David Hotel. A great crowd had assembled behind armed British guards at the station square, burst into roars of "Long Live Ethiopia!" "Long Live Emperor Haile Selassie!" Big tears rolled down the little man's dusky...
Corporate taxes strike at the very vitals of American industry. While it is inevitable that the burden for relief should be borne by the corporations it is only logical to argue that those taxes should be simple, carefully drawn, weighing equally on all firms, and passed only after penetrating scrutiny by Congressional legislators...
Died. Milo Reno, 70, tireless, belligerent Iowa farm strike leader, head of the National Farmers' Holiday Association (TIME, Aug. 29, 1932 et seq.); of a heart attack following influenza and pneumonia; in Excelsior Springs...
March, "The Creole Queen"Hall Overture, "New Orleans Mardi Gras" Wilson *"Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen," Negro Spiritual Arranged by Jachhia *Mississippi Suite Grofe *Carnival Overture Dvorak *"Fireworks" Stravinsky *Bolero Ravel *Selection, "Show Boat" Kern *"Estudiautina," Waltzes Waldteufel *"Strike Up The Band" Gershwin Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store. Harvard Square