Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which has been subtracting from Roosevelt's sleeping hours; the second is the farm bloc. A few days ago Governor Langer of Nebraska ordered an embargo on all wheat exports from the state, to be enforced, if necessary, by the militia; Milo Reno is organizing another general farmer's strike; there has been increasing sentiment built up for inflation. These were not casual outbursts, but evidence of the farmer's feeling that he has been excluded from the Recovery program, that his situation has become and is becoming worse through the growing disparity between agricultural and industrial prices. Even...
...week with Spain's Ambassador Luciano Lopez Ferrer. The occasion was Spain's formal recognition of Cuba's latest government. Spain was the first European nation so to act, though Mexico, Uruguay, Peru and Panama had already done so. ¶Cuba's long-threatened general strike again failed to materialize. President Grau settled himself a little more solidly in the saddle by signing a smart decree. To persuade Cuba's wild-eyed, well-meaning students to quit politics, President Grau granted complete autonomy (including freedom of expression) to the University of Havana, plus an annual...
...little invitations in the Crimson. This is not because President Conant has not tea in his pantry yet, but because he does not live at 17 Quincy Street. President Conant "will be glad to see all men who are students in the University," when the Cambridge furniture-moving strike is ended, when he will move his worldly goods from his house on Oxford Street...
Buyers' Strike? Individual retailers (but not their trade associations) began to have misgivings. Perhaps price-fixing was not the Godsend they believed. Though it was estimated that September dollar sales were 8% to 10% above a year ago, the rise was more than accounted for by increased prices-proof that the volume of trade was off. Merchants talked nervously of a Buyers' Strike. Consumers feared that retailers would use the code as an excuse for general price-upping, particularly in communities where competition was slack. The NRA had been used as an excuse before. In July the price...
Some of the tales that will strike a Western eye: the Bunyanesque vicissitudes of the stout-hearted Ling Ch'ung; the Decameronish deception of Wu the Elder by his wicked wife and the bawdy old woman; the Tattooed Priest, a kind of Friar Tuck of the outlaws; the robbers' rescue of the youth about to be executed. Though some of the incidents would never have passed Queen Victoria (in the 18th Century Shui Hu Chuan was banned in China as "licentious") they are narrated always with polite decency...