Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which would enable the farmer to stick his hands down into Uncle Sam's rockets, I'd be for it. But I don't see that opportunity in voting 'for this debenture plan." Neither did a House majority which voted (231-to-161) to strike the proposal from the bill...
That, 40 years ago, was Mary Harris ("Mother") Jones, famed organizer of strikes and unions, Irish-born, matriarch of the new and struggling United Mine Workers of America. Aged almost 60 at her first strike, she led violent mobs, faced bullets, bayonets, stumptalked despite police for many a year. Her tongue lashed the "tyrants" opposing union labor, her wit roused the drooping morale of many a waning revolt. The climax of her career as a labor agitator came at the mine "massacre" at Ludlow...
...Crows were surrounded with enemies: Sioux, Arapahos, Blackfeet, Piegans, Cheyennes, Shoshones, Flatheads, Gros Ventres. As a small boy his elders taught him how to steal meat from his own village, that later he might steal enemy horses, "count coup." "To count coup a warrior had to strike an armed and fighting enemy with his coupstick, quirt, or bow before otherwise harming him, or take his weapons while he was yet alive, or strike the first enemy falling in battle, no matter who killed him, or strike the enemy's breastworks while under fire, or steal a horse tied...
...Since the newspapers of the great industrial towns of Pennsylvania are usually controlled . . by the large capitalists, it is obvious that in 99 cases out of 100 their reports will represent the view of the employing class. ... To illustrate: In the steel strike of 1919 the Press ot Pittsburgh sided entirely with the employers. . . . Actually in only one issue out of 400 did an article appear which described the scandalous violations of American liberties and of the federal Constitution by local authorities. ... I desire here, however, to stress that there are real and legitimate difficulties...
...after inter-tribal clashes, tribeswomen anesthetize their wounds with ginger. Beside the "doctor" is a jar containing a species of ferocious, strong-jawed ants. After drawing the lips of the wound together, the "doctor" holds an ant close to the wound, lets it bite. If and when the mandibles strike on each side of the wound, the ant's body is snipped off. The death grip of the head holds the wound together. Often as many as six ants are used on large wounds. Thus drawn together the wound is smeared with a weed-pulp paste, bandaged with dried...