Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will not strike a blow; we will die, for it is God's law. ... The police have been given the power of magistrates. They wrest the salt from our hands by breaking our fingers, but we should not give up our salt. Even if our hands are bleeding ... we should not retaliate. God is our protector...
While directors were trying to think of an answer 5,000 workmen walked out? the first strike in the company's history. At 12 p. m. the Tokyo Stock Exchange suspended trading...
More than the cotton strikes at Osaka and Kobe was at the back of last week's exchange closing. Within the past two years the value of shares listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange has fallen 30%. The removal of the embargo on gold shipments out of Japan has seriously depleted the country's gold reserve. Decreased U. S. demand for raw silk has brought a slump to Japan's chief export industry. Last week's cotton strike, and a hint of further labor troubles, brought Japanese brokers to panic's edge. Deeply concerned was the cabinet of Prime Minister...
...catching him. Devens, because of his good work in the South has earned the first position among the Harvard moundsmen and is on the way to repeat his work of last year when he pitched the Freshman team through a successful season. The Sophomore ace is high among the strike-out wizards of the East, having fanned 26 men in 23 innings so far this season...
...determine the present extent of law-breaking. The fact that about one-third of the students favor enforcement, one-third repeal, and one-third modification is of little importance. Students in this matter are not in a position to pass critical judgment upon the present legislation. They strike out wildly, vote for repeal when they have no conception of the effects of repeal, vote for modification without any picture of the legislation to be substituted, vote for enforcement without consideration of the paradox of the present conditions...