Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sunday night in January 1935 a one-act play about a taxi strike had its premiere in a shabby downtown Manhattan theatre. At its conclusion, a Left Wing audience put on the kind of demonstration that What Price Glory? had known, uptown, ten years before. The play was Waiting for Lefty, by Clifford Odets. Two months later. Lefty was running full blast in one Broadway theatre, Odets' Awake and Sing! in another, and critics were writing elaborate Sunday articles about the author. The Left theatre had become an exciting reality for people in no wise Left-minded, and when...
...week during its seven-month run; the cinema sale means $42,000 more. (He and his wife have a 35% joint interest in Rocket to the Moon.) He looks ahead to writing plays without interruption-has "ten or twelve"' plays already laid out. One, a strike play called The Silent Partner, may be produced by the Group later this season...
This really finished the case. But the most interesting irrelevancy of the trial was the following story about the origin of the Lucky Strike slogan: "My father [Percival S. Hill, whom George succeeded in 1925] was anxious to put out the brand of Lucky Strike cigarets, and I was not willing to put it out because I was sales manager and responsible to him for the success or failure of it, and I didn't have a reason for it. I went over to the factory one day . . . and when I got within three blocks of the factory...
...repeal of the forty-hour week by decreelaw, and the military suppression of labor's right to strike, were not the methods a democratic premier should have chosen. He and the present deputies were elected one the pledge to uphold labor's demand for a forty-hour week; Daladier later reversed his own stand; but he had no right to change the nation's mind by coercion...
When the "deux chambres" convene, then, they will have before them an important choice. Either they may vote approval of Daladier's strike-suppression, or they may rebuke his dictatorial methods and call for a national plebiscite on the fate of the forty-hour week. The deputies have no other leader to whom they can turn, and so they cannot overthrow the Daladier government. Yet in the present crisis they must not abdicate their functions. The decision which the "deux chambres" make is a crucial one: a rebuke to Daladier may save French democracy, a ratification of his actions will...