Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perched on Primo Camera's arm, the reporters and newsmen gleefully learned that the Willard was serving them free lunch and liquor. They ate in shifts, later took turns in a poker game, for any opening of the locked door might mean the biggest labor story since the strike in "Little Steel." Some papers kept private lines open to the Willard, and all press services kept a running story on their wires...
...uses it from choice and with stunning effect-it proves, nevertheless, that if a playwright has enough to say he needs neither sets nor costumes to help him say it. What Mr. Blitzstein has to say concerns what happens to bosses and workers when a steel town goes on strike. If sometimes he uses stock characters and stock works, he more often uses bright, biting satire. The audience laughs out loud when the spoiled son and daughter of a steelmaster try to throw off their ill-natured boredom with a tinny song about spooning and crooning, when a college president...
...Called Strike...
...little bridge just outside the town, and the Warreners were on hand in large numbers. Chief Bull struck the first blow. Leaping on one of the oxen, he tore at the harness traces. The driver of the wagon lashed out with his horse whip, and Bull took a called strike...
...York's sanitary code requires that all bodies be buried within four days after death. To Mayor LaGuardia, the Greenwood Cemetery crisis had ceased to be a labor dispute and become a problem in public health. So it was-not because of a strike in one cemetery but because it posed the possibility of some great future strike that might spread pestilence as did exposed, decaying bodies in the Middle Ages-that the Mayor directed his labor adviser, Nathan Frankel, to notify the cemetery management and the strikers that unless they promptly settled the dispute, he would act. Then...