Word: strike
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of North Carolina's scrappy little President Frank Porter Graham, discretion has rarely been the better part of valor. As far back as North Carolina's bloody Gastonia textile strike in 1929, History Professor Graham stuck his academic neck out to fight for a better deal for labor. Over the years, he fought against racial discrimination and restriction of academic freedom. He joined numberless "liberal" committees. Franklin Roosevelt often used him on commissions on social and economic problems...
...time when editors had to be "true with the rifle, ready with [the] pen and quick at the typecase." But Kemble just didn't seem to have much news sense. After a trip to Sutter's Mill, he reported in his weekly Star that the great gold strike was "all a sham, as superb a take-in as ever was got up to guzzle the gullible." The rival Californian had no sense of smell, either. For seven weeks, the Californian and the Star ignored the big news. Then they had to shut up shop. Every gullible soul...
...democratic ideas for lectures-and got it back scrawled with screams ("no! no! no! no! no!"; "Do go to the root"). In Letter 15 Lawrence was more explicit. "You simply don't speak the truth . . . you are really the super-war-spirit . . . you want to jab and strike, like the soldier with the bayonet . . . You are simply full of repressed desires . . . As a woman said to me, who had been to one of your meetings: 'It seemed so strange, with his face looking so evil, to be talking about peace and love...
Back Talk. Armour & Co.'s Chairman George A. Eastwood had an answer to the Government's charge in an antitrust suit (TIME, Sept. 27) that meat packers had conspired to keep prices high, and thereby assure high profits. Because of the ten week packinghouse workers' strike and the upsurge in livestock prices last spring, Armour & Co. will wind up the year with a $2,000,000 loss on close to $2 billion in sales...
Died. Carlton K. Matson, 58, chief editorial writer of the Cleveland Press,' who, knowing that he had cancer, wrote about it to further a public attitude of frankness ("What I want to do is strike a blow against this mysterious, paralyzing hush-hush that surrounds every case of cancer"); of cancer; in Cleveland...