Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson Freshmen dropped their last game to B. U. 5-2, when the Terrier twirler set down 20 Yardlings via the strikeout route, the Samborski coached nine will be out today to reverse the count on the Soldiers Field diamond. Jack Schwede for the Crimson will oppose the strike-out arttist Brown on the mound, when the two teams tangle at 4 o'clock...
When Harvard undergraduates gather in Sanders Theatre this morning at a peace forum presided over by the Dean of the University, they will be in no way participating in the American Student Union's nation-wide "strike." Far from defying college authority, they will meet with the approval of the Dean's Office. Far from drinking in some of the more ruddy doctrines of the A.S.U., they will hear no less conservative a speaker than Hamilton Fish, Jr. Far from being harangued by undergraduate radicals, they will be addressed by the President of the Student Council...
...Healey's fast ball has been inconsistent to date. He is leading the circuit pitchers in strike-outs with 13, but against the Tigers was definitely off and batted from the mound. Although John Mahoney held B. U. to a stand-off, the veteran slow-ball artist can not be counted on as a consistent winner in Ivy competition...
...started out even worse with discouraging scores of 171 and 145 for his first two games. But suddenly in his third game, Mike Blazek began to hear again & again the hallowed sound that is music to a bowler's ears-the clean, choral crash that means a strike. Eight, nine, ten times in succession. Aware that something momentous was happening, excited crowds began to jam behind his alley, but Bowler Blazek refused to be ruffled. Again he rolled a solid pocket smash. Taking his stance for his last and crucial shot, Mike Blazek just perceptibly faltered. His ball crossed...
...Pelley of the American Association of Railroads reluctantly indicated that in this event the roads might be obliged to negotiate for a pay cut through the mechanism provided by the National Mediation Board, Labor spokesmen cracked back that the unions "would stop at nothing short of a nationwide strike" to maintain their present wage scale. As George Harrison well knows, the Railway Labor Act's detailed procedure of negotiating wages takes months & months. And even President Roosevelt admits the roads cannot wait long for financial aid. Said he fortnight ago in passing along the railroad problem to Congress: "Some...