Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...courts and generally to repair and lubricate the entire machinery of enforcement, while the thrifty Mr. Mellon has long advocated a revision of the Border laws with an increase in the size of the patrol. But all these recommendations, though necessary as parallel measures of reform, fail to strike to the heart of the problem, and serve only to strengthen the impression that the Commission has somehow evaded the issue...
...Sebastian Bach, Maurice Ravel and that infectious zoologist, Cole ("Let's Do It") Porter who used to lead the Yale Glee Club. A tune by the late great Bach is intoned during a dance entitled "Gothic'' in which two girls named Tilly Losch and Ann Barberova strike attitudes marvelously reminiscent of medieval sculpture and stained glass. To the threnodies of Ravel, the remarkable Losch, whose dancing has made her something of a fetish in Europe, performs an extraordinary "Arabesque" in which her hands and torso trace sinuous designs while her feet remain motionless. Cole Porter fulfills...
...Charles Clayton Wylie that 24 million meteors enter the earth's atmosphere daily. The dim ones, and almost all are dim, become visible about 75 mi. from earth's surface and burn out quickly. The bright ones explode about 15 mi. up. Relatively few fragments strike land...
Christopher Mahon is a daft and timid fellow who strikes his father in an altercation and fancies that he has killed him. Fleeing across the wild coast of County Mayo he tells the tale of his patricide in a public house and is immediately heralded for bravery, ogled by the village girls. With this impetus he becomes indeed a dashing fellow. Then his avenging father appears and the psychological fun begins. This famed, lyrical comedy by J. M. Synge is now revived by the Irish Theatre. The actors find it as difficult to speak distinctly as they...
...Pullman Co. was the largest railroad manufacturing company in the world. It had 14,000 employes, most of whom lived in Mr. Pullman's model city- Pullman, Ill. In 1894 came the famed Pullman strike, featured by the late Eugene Victor Debs's rise to national prominence and by Mr. Pullman's classic statement: There is nothing to arbitrate. Mr. Pullman died (1897) of angina pectoris...