Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called a protest strike, 3,000 men swarmed out of the plant and up from the flatlands. Akron police also swarmed, commanded pickets to break up the jams around Goodyear's gates, let a nonstriking minority in and out. The jams thickened, police charged the lines. Nineteen-year-old Striker Donald Dixon was shot through the kidney, a woman through the right hand, a policeman in the face. Forty-seven others were wounded, gassed, or sufficiently knocked about to require medical attention. Police then scooted to U. R. W. headquarters, shattered its windows and drove out its occupants with...
...various approaches--social, intellectual, constitutional, etc., has made of them a study of civilization. Admission into the field is selective and restricted to fifty from each class. The special fields are Greece, Rome, Germany, France, England, America, Middle Ages, Renaissance, 17th century, 18th century, and 19th century. Divisional exams strike almost at once; thus, in the spring of his Sophomore year, a concentrator takes a three-hour Bible and Shakspere; in the fall as a Junior he takes two thirty-minute orals on either Ancient or Modern Authors and Historians, depending upon his special field. In May of his third...
...first-rate comedy, and, though its biggest guns were all on the serious side, no important play with social significance. (Of Mice and Men and Golden Boy had social material, but no major social theme.) But social significance ran away with the musical field, providing a tense, pounding strike drama in The Cradle Will Rock, a fresh, spirited revue in Pins and Needles. Best of the straight musicals: Hooray for What!, thanks to the clowning of Ed Wynn, the music of Harold Arlen...
...jawed little man all his well-earned dignity. When the practical Lord Leverhulme, soap king of England, cut the head out of John's portrait of him in 1920 so he could get it in his safe, most of the artists and art dealers in London went on strike for 24 hours...
Meanwhile in Albany, Protestant ministers had attended a hearing on a proposal to strike from the State Constitution its article against gambling. Though they were voluble concerning the moral aspects of gambling, the ministers were unable to explain why gambling, any more than prostitution, should be specifically unconstitutional. Roman Catholics kept mum. Their tidy attitude on this question is that gambling is licit if: 1) the gamer owns and can afford to lose what he wagers; 2) he acts of his own free will; 3) there is no fraud; 4) there is equality among the parties to the game...