Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gang, Homer van Meter, was "identified." In another suburb three policemen overtook a car, were promptly covered by machine guns and disarmed by men who they were "positive" were members of the gang. "It was Dillinger, all right." said one. But where Desperado Dillinger was or how he would strike next or even whether he yet lived no man knew...
...industrial organizations have developed. The tine has come for social responsibility; but it is not now, and there never will be, a time for a complete leveling of wealth. Nor is the present a time to listen to destructive agitators like the Communist leaders of the New York taxicab strike, who, with absolutely no desire to ameliorate the lot of the drivers, sought only to make trouble for the cab operating companies. Now is the time to he as careful to preserve the things that are good -- the family, religions, the economic inequality, individual liberty and individual initiation -- as well...
...Professor Pereda (TIME, April 9) was "too weak to speak" at any time during his seven-day hunger strike, "it was weakness of intellect, birdie, I cried" and not weakness due to famine...
Senator Bone: I am a poor man, and I know of no reason why the Senate should strike from my hands the right to make a living for my family in a legitimate activity. I know of no reason why a poor man should be excluded from this body and the instrument by which he lives stricken from his hands...
...shutting down the factory for the night, Carl fretted and fumed, let discontent and darkness bring to a head what might have become a riot. When the men came back to work after the holiday Carl had fired a crowd of the best workers, among them Hagen. A strike followed, feeling grew uglier day by day. Finally the police shot a scab by mistake, thinking he was a picketer. One of the strikers' leaders was arrested for the crime. When Carl and his higher-ups decided that the police were not giving them enough help they armed a posse...