Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cuban Junta the necessity for a law & order government. While President Roosevelt was backing away from intervention diplomatically, his precautionary plans for military action went forward full blast. He did not intend to exert force but if he had to, he was going to be fully prepared to strike hard and fast. The light cruiser Richmond arrived off Havana from the Canal Zone. Aboard was square-jawed rear Admiral Charles S. Freeman, commander of the Special Service Squadron. Admiral Freeman, a quiet, cool-headed Pennsylvanian of 55, was put in charge of all naval vessels in Cuban waters. He went...
...union members. You must earn a living. But don't scab on your fellow workers. Your factory carries a picture of the Blue Eagle, of course. They all do. But the Blue Eagle is a blue buzzard for the workers. So come on out and strike...
...walked into the washroom. Just as I faced the basin and the wall someone struck me from behind and upon my turning three or four men covered me. I saw one strike at my head with a knife or something sharp and I ducked just so that it grazed my forehead. One man was blocking the door but I stumbled low through him and managed to wriggle clear. I felt blood coming down my face. . . . We have tried to find out the persons who did the ganging. ... I have been repeatedly threatened. I was lucky to have escaped...
...last week the plague of epidemic encephalitis (sleeping sickness) sweeping St. Louis County had become the most virulent in U. S. history. Four hundred and seventy-five cases had been reported, 60 victims were dead. Encephalitis continued to strike sporadically throughout the nation (56 deaths from it outside St. Louis in recent months) but nowhere else was the disease epidemic. Nor were the peculiar symptoms of St. Louis' variety of encephalitis duplicated elsewhere. No St. Louis patient fell into the deep stupor which occurs in 80% of encephalitis cases...
...Portland, Ore., during a strike, a woman picket marched up & down in front of Mrs. Myrtle Michos' restaurant. Mrs. Michos sent for Willis R. Willey, 48, a huge, hairy farmer of Spokane, Wash., who is famed in the Northwest for his consistent refusal to wear anything but a sun visor and shorts. Last week a mixed jury found Farmer Willey guilty of disorderly conduct. His offense: Walking up & down beside the woman picket to embarrass...