Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...published a newspaper, gravitated from the Midwest to Long Beach. Calif., became a bank president, a realtor, a Knight of Pythias, a politician, and six weeks ago upon the death of James Rolph Jr., Governor of California just in time to face the best brand of California dynamite?a strike...
...board went octogenarian Andrew Furuseth who has lived on San Francisco's Embarcadero for more than 40 years, organized seamen, fought their battles and now heads the International Seamen's Union of America. He pleaded with strikers: "With confidence and justice we can settle this strike within 24 hours and without bloodshed. Men, let's get together while there is still time. The only thing in the way of peace now is distrust, one group of the other...
...remember it all as if it happened yesterday," said Papa Semiz. "It was there in that corner, just against the window, that Gavrilo Princip sat just 20 years ago while he waited for my clock to strike the hour...
...close race. Last month the Cardinals' Manager Frankie Frisch exchanged words and blows with portly Umpire Charley Rigler during a game against Chicago. League authorities fined both $100, first time in recent years that an umpire has been so disciplined. A week earlier, the first individual strike in baseball history took place when Pitcher Dizzy Dean refused to play unless the club upped Brother Paul's salary from $3,000 to $5,000. After one day St. Louis owners persuaded Paul to compromise...
Nash Motors stock had fallen to a new low for the year ($15.50) on the New York Stock Exchange when its directors met at Kenosha, Wis. and surprised Wall Street by declaring a 25? common dividend, after omitting payments last quarter. In spite of production delays caused by a strike in the Nash plants last April, Chairman Charles Williams Nash announced that sales since Jan.1 were 300% better than for the first six months...