Word: strike
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fred J. Sears '42, who styles himself the "Last Republican in Harvard," put in a call last night for 50 students to help him break the Georgian strike, and 600 to "show those (censored) truce breaking truck strikers...
Only now development in the two day old Georgian strike yesterday was the eviction of the strikers from their temporary headquarters in the district office of the American Student Union in the Abbott Building on Harvard Square when the owner threatened not to renew the lease...
...Student Union last night passed a resolution supporting the workers, and formed a large strike committee to provide food and new headquarters for the Georgian employees. Student backing will be sought for a boycott of all Georgian cafeterias...
...difference lies in the small scale of the entire piece. The characters are relatively few, the scenes simple, the action consistently underplayed. The touches which strike the American audience are the little ones--the close-up of Von Stroheim's gloved fist as his French friend, and prisoner, dies; the scene in which the escaped Marechal talks French to a mute German cow. These flashes convey feeling in a way that Hollywood seldom uses, but it would be unfair to say that the best Hollywood technique is any less effective...
Although the Student Union as a whole has taken no stand on the strike, the Labor Committee promptly swung into action, providing the strikers with food and a headquarters, and circulating petitions enlisting student support in the Houses and the Yard...