Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...release in work, scrubbed the crumbling house from top to bottom. She worked until her hands grew limp, until she almost fainted each time she leaned over the scrubbing bucket, until she dropped asleep like someone struck down by a blow, but she could find no peace. A general strike, deeper worries over money, nagging delays and disappointments piled heavier burdens upon her. demoralized the shaken Fury household. There remained one last pain that Peter could cause her to break her heart. She tried to keep him from her estranged son Desmond, fearing Desmond's mockery. The strike threw...
...novels dealing with the wild Fury clan, The Furys begins with the sort of situation on which most novels end. is distinguished by its sustained intensity, its brilliant characterization of Mrs. Fury, its brisk, unadorned, effective prose style, its few powerful, panoramic scenes of violence and disorder during the strike. Although readers may be repelled by the detachment of James Hanley's writing-so chill it sometimes seems close to scorn-may dislike the general meanness that marks his minor figures, they are likely to agree that The Furys is a bold and arresting effort, less squeamish, less sentimental...
...Grande Railroads, fighting for the Chicken Creek Route in strategic Raton Pass. Still quarreling with his father's partner, Miguel left the company, visited Denver, saw Leadville at the peak of its boom, became a member of the Chaffee Light Artillery of Colorado and served during the railroad strike of 1879, when the strikers took the roundhouse at Pueblo. Then he settled down, aged 20, to a quiet life in Las Vegas, where there were 29 killings in one month, 18 in another ten weeks, and where, as he remembered it, "one of the important events...
...McGrady was diplomatic. After a time he got Mr. Lewis to go over and see Secretary Perkins. Periodically all afternoon the President was on the wire to the Department of Labor. Towards evening Miss Perkins had news for him: Mr. Lewis would not call the strike if the President really did not want...
...calm M. Corbin he was told of an "ancient statute" under which if the higher Admiralty officials feel the Government is endangering Britain's Naval security it becomes their "right and duty" to endanger it still further by resigning in a body. The mere threat of such an Admiralty strike, so M. Corbin was told, would mean national panic and the Government's fall. In short, Premier Laval could not have the promised papers last week. German secrets possessed by Britain must be concealed from France, her Wartime ally with all that that implied. Soon the official French attitude...