Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ralph to the penitentiary for three years for income tax evasion. A Harding appointee in 1922, Judge Wilkerson sprang immediately into national prominence less than two months after he mounted the bench by granting a sweeping injunction (framed by then Attorney General Daugherty) against railway shopmen in the great strike that year. Fingering the ribbon of his glasses with an air of abstraction, he heard Mr. Capone's young doctor and nurses testify that, down with pleurisy, he had been in grave condition during February and March 1929. Then Judge Wilkerson listened to other witnesses who related how the supposedly...
...court Suffraget Richardson announced the whole affair was a protest against the incarceration of Chief Suffraget Emmeline Pankhurst, at the time on a hunger strike in Holloway Jail...
Because he once saw a bum beaten up by a cop Jimmie had joined the I. W. W.; but his enthusiasm waned, he had never been active. Then the War started, wages boomed, the Wobblies started strikes in every mill they could. But it was an unpopular time to strike; soon the Wobblies were made to realize it. Bodies were found of men who had "committed suicide;" homes were wrecked, men beaten up by night-riders. Jimmie did not advertise his I. W. W. membership but it was known. By luck he escaped, but his spirit was broken; when...
...Author. Like his hero, Louis Colman has been a millman (he has hell down multifarious jobs in a lumbermill). Though never an I. W. W.. he has been out on many a lumber strike. Now, at 26, he has finished with sawmills, lives in Manhattan, translates from the French: Lumber is his first novel...
...atheism was not enough. Still seeking, Mrs. Besant became a Socialist, joined the Fabian Society, and organized the first successful strike among English working women. One day she reviewed a big two-volume book, The Secret Doctrine by Mme H. P. Blavatsky. It excited her; she went to meet the author, succumbed to Theosophy. Her rise as usual was rapid. Long secretary of the Society, at 60 she was made president. Theosophist headquarters are at Adyar, Madras, India, and there Mrs. Besant has lived off & on for 40 years. Considering herself a Hindu by adoption, she early championed Indian nationalism...