Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...object to General Johnson hanging more dead cats on the President. Nine months of this explains why NRA has come to mean National Run Around." With this salutation a group of union leaders last week greeted the proposal General Johnson offered to settle the threatened steel strike...
...Alaska Railroad was begun. Frank Adams, John Holmberg and Tom Jensen loaded up with salt pork, coffee and flour at Fort Yukon and went prospecting up the Yukon River. They took Sweet Marie along for company. Folks around Fort Yukon learned that they had made a fairly good strike. Then word came in that the prospectors had fallen to quarreling. Next thing heard was that Tom Jensen had killed Adams, Holmberg and the Schmidt woman and run off with a poke worth some...
...leader of the Opposition. M. Papanastasiou, an artful dodger, was not hurt until he threw the chair back at the Government with such violence that he dislocated his right shoulder. Grimacing with pain, he left the Chamber and announced that the entire Opposition would stay out on a protest strike against General Kondylis' ambition to buy 600 million drachmas worth of munitions at a time when Greece faces no threat...
...notable example of what happens when a threatened strike does not materialize to cut production was this spring's disappointing automobile trade following a roaring first quarter...
...wages they earned for their growing family. As soon as Erland was old enough to leave school he went to work too, but then Hanna found she was going to have another baby. Other unremarkable misfortunes followed: Peter got blood-poisoning, their furniture was attached for taxes, a general strike made even honest workmen scabs. Their story ends in the midst of the strike, with nothing to lighten the horizon but a possible emigration...