Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Death is the friend of fame. Its enemies are records and people with good memories, for legends depend on lack of evidence. Because she has become a legend in her own lifetime, Mary Pickford feels these truths strike home. Shrewdest business woman in pictures, she has been secretly buying her old pictures to destroy them, to wipe out, except in the imagination of future generations, "America's Sweetheart" of 1910 to 1930, the golden-ringleted girl who, in the changing fashions of two decades, wept, smiled, loved, pantomimed in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Poor Little Rich Girl, Daddy Long...
...combination worked smoothly. Another encouraging sign in that Des Roches, one of the Crimson's most reliable batsmen at the beginning of the season, has begun to connect again after an injury lay-off that apparently dimmed his batting eye. On two occasions, the third sacker protested a called strike and then, on the next throw, singled sharply...
...British General Strike, the Coal-Strike and finally World Depression threw out of work tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, finally more than two millions of His Majesty's subjects...
...Montreal, John Moraine, who had been paralyzed in his legs for three months, saw lightning strike his home and ran away quickly...
...interesting career, having been at one time Superintendent of Streets in Schenectady. New York, labor agitator, and mayor of Peabody, Massachusetts. At the present the "minister without a pulpit", as he is known, is regional director for the American Civil Liberties Union, which he represented in the recent textile strike at Lawrence. He has made a through study of the attempts of the working class to express itself, and will discuss the various aspects of the Lawrence strike in relation to his study...