Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only when a President has interested himself in the cause of the plain people, when he is determined to equalize economic opportunities so as to establish a better and happier social order, that the Copperheads, their ancestors and their descendants secrete an extra supply of venom with which to strike down the man who bravely tilts his lance against special privilege and entrenched greed...
...next afternoon, when the general strike began, not a brewer, baker, barber, barkeep or beautician was operating in all Pekin. In freezing cold union delegates had informed all merchants that if their shops were not locked up by the strike's deadline, their windows would be smashed. Not a shop in Pekin was open after 3 p.m. Six hundred allied workers at Corn Products Refining Co. then voted to walk out. Other workers promised to quit in sympathy...
...shipyard, a foreman asks for a wedge. Chaplin knocks one out of a cradle, thus launching an unfinished boat. He goes back to work in the steel factory. The workers go on strike. He gets a job as night watchman in a department store where he enjoys roller skating through the corridors at night. When three old cronies break into the store, Chaplin is constrained to share a snack with them in the wine department. Next morning he wakes up on a counter under a mass of lingerie. He goes to jail...
...England's worst depression, beginning five years ago, had brought a second General Strike and had upped the Fascist National Volunteers to the most powerful armed body in the State. An impotent Labor Government, despairingly voted into office, has just been swept out again on a flood of financial panic and bewildered rioting, and the National Volunteers have hoisted Dictator Frank Hillier into the saddle. At the head of a pasteboard National State Party, with Parliament dissolved and a yes-man Council as his catspaws, Hillier rules England. Royalty has apparently vanished at last. There is no opposition. There...
...DUBIOUS BATTLE - John Steinbeck - Covici, Friede ($2.50). Strike melodrama, fought with a fairly straight Left. Much more impressive performance than his overrated Tortilla Flat...