Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peace Strike withstood the ravages of yesterday's festooned hecklers. To the Continuations Committee and its subsidiary organizations must go credit for the persistence in impressing their aim on an unwilling Harvard. The spontaneity which marked the first spring party last year had to fail unless some distinct and catching new feature was introduced. It is quite evident that organized annual humor cannot last if it is pitted against an aim which basically has some logic...
Yesterday's occasion, however, does little to change the fundamental question of whether a peace strike is an effective way in which to achieve world peace. One questions seriously what effect even 150,000 pacificists can have on the jealousies and ambitions which send nations into the death-throes of the battle field. If the United States feels in a few years that the undeveloped resources in China are essential to her prosperity and Japan sees fit to disagree with her, a country jammed to the borders with peace-loving citizens will be unable to prevent a military clash...
This year's strike, the second of its kind, will take place simultaneously in colleges throughout the country under the auspices of the National Student League, the Student League for Industrial Democracy, and other losser organizations. Telegrams of endorsement were sent to the Committee by Senators Gerald P. Nye, Bonnett P. Clark, Homer Bohn, and J. S. Pope...
John Haynes Holmes, of the Community Church of New York, also communicated to the Committee his enthusiastic support of the strike and added that he felt "that the action of certain college faculties in opposing the strike is to be deplored...
...Blake's style, and the spirit in which he writes. "We killed rattlesnakes, big ones, the mottled brown diamond backs that were everywhere, among the rocks, on the glaring open salt fiats, in the sage country. I shudder to think, of those ugly reptiles coiled and ratting, ready to strike venom into a man's leg and turn his red blood a vivid, poisonous green. And I feel the cold shivers on my spine when I realize that I stepped within a foot of one of them, one that did not strike and did not rattle, but like a silent...