Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bared their stomachs, made clumsy efforts to commit harakiri. Pouncing police grabbed both bunglers before they had much harmed themselves, bundled them off to jail, announced, "they will both recover." Meanwhile a party of friends of the two men (whose names police kept secret) were busy with a hunger strike against the income tax evasions, had not eaten for more than a week...
About 1924 Depression seemed to strike a great number of obscure noble Italian families, churches and monasteries. Dealers were able to offer rich clients the most extraordinary treasures, objects that had evaded the researches of biographers and art students for centuries. With great clamor the Boston Museum paid $100,000 for a Renaissance tomb identified by Italian experts as the work of Mino da Fiesole. The Metropolitan Museum bought an archaic Greek statue. Miss Helen Frick got an angel by "Simone Martini"-the list is endless...
Last week Austrian Railway Director Seefehlner called Deputy Koenig into his office. Berthold Koenig is not only a Deputy but an important official in the Austrian railwaymen's union and a Socialist. There was an official excuse for the conference: a threatening railway strike over a pay cut. Director Seefehlner had a little suggestion to make...
...affair at N.Y.U. dealt with in a much more intelligent fashion. The Student Senate, apparently determined at last to assert itself on a controversial question where the Daily had taken the wrong side, discontinued the publication of the paper. This sort of dictation was of course intolerable as the strike and mass meetings indicated...
...Lucky Strike...