Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the National Student League branch at Yale chose to involve itself in a foundry strike, many things might have been expected. There might have been a few heads broken, or a ponderous manifesto on the academic spirit by the owner of the foundry. But only a few cynical sculs could have foreseen that Dean Mendell would make the statement which he did, all unafraid and all complacent, to the effect that Yale wanted nothing so much as to foster a spirit of cooperation between students and neighbours, albeit the neighbours were strike-breakers of the most brutal and witless...
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...difficulty in adjusting her good intentions to her Iowa temperament caused sorrowing St. Gandhi to embark on a hunger strike seven months ago. Nilla repented and for five months slept on a bed of bricks in penance. Two months ago she erupted once more, turned up wild-eyed and dusty at the home of an astonished Hindu in Muttra only to disappear again...
...Montevideo, Uruguay, 500 tuberculous hospital patients declared that their food was unfit to eat, went on a hunger strike. Doctors & nurses insisted the food was good, induced them to break the strike after two days. Few hours after their first meal most of the patients, all the doctors & nurses were stricken with ptomaine poisoning...
...indifferent, the rigours of participation in a live, unhypothetical movement, and they gain not only honour and glory but a pleasant pastime as well. Parcuis and deans smile benignantly on them, for the occupation is warranted harmless and money refunded if it leads to being arrested while picketing a strike...