Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...none too soon to begin planning the earthworks, barricades and other defenses necessary to the full enjoyment of a modern convention. With Canada so handy and the river full of speedboats, the 1931 event should set a record for all time. And Detroit, never having had a police strike to practice on, can't begin too soon to insure its plate glass and anticipate a magnificent patriotic occasion. It is comforting to know, however, that if Detroit is razed to its foundations. Baltimore, Seattle, etc., will be lobbying for the American Legion convention...
...First big strike under auspices of the A. F. of L. since the White House conferences occurred last week, when 4,000 textile workers walked out of the Riverside & Dan River cotton mills at Danville...
...Germany (see p. 18), found him taciturn, truculently unwilling to be interviewed-until they told him about the disaster of which he had not heard. Shocked into conversation Mr. Ford repeated again and again, "Horrible, horrible!" With the nation economically depressed the R-IOI'S loss seemed to strike brutally deep into Britain's present pessimistic psychology. People gathered on street corners to ask each other WHY? They had known the R-IOI affectionately as "The Old Bus," looked upon her as a vital link in the new, swift transportation chains of Empire...
...propose to strike 'Victory' from our banners and replace it with 'Battle!' " he continued. "We know not only how to move the masses and rule them, but we can also engage in foil fencing on this ground...
...Lucky Strikes. Lead-off endorser in the other campaign-of-the-week was no vaudevillian but Brig.-General Samuel McRoberts, Chairman of Chatham Phenix National Bank & Trust Co. Banker McRoberts said: "Making friends and holding them by a friendly up-to-date usefulness is the secret of success in business. This axiom has been the guiding force in the progress of Chatham Phenix National Bank & Trust Co. And it is obviously the guiding force in your business ?as evidenced by your use of ultra violet ray in the 'toasting' of the Lucky Strike tobaccos...