Word: striker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hoping that you will know the difference between a "Striker" and a "Dog Robber...
...footnote was Letter-Writer O'Brien's, not TIME'S. And it was correct, not "hooey." "Dog-robbers" were called "strikers" often enough to get into Webster's Dictionary under "striker." U. S. Army officers were forbidden to use enlisted men as servants by Act of Congress July...
...operate the mills, the managers scoured the East Tennessee mountain country for strikebreakers whom they drove to the plants in busses and trucks under armed guards. The strikers, many of them also back-countrymen, attempted to block the highways, break up the convoys. Trees were felled across the road. In one case a "loyal worker" injured three strikers when ordered by Guardsmen to drive his car full tilt through a blockading group. Adjutant General W. C. Boyd in charge of militia at Elizabethton was arrested on a charge of "aiding and abetting an attempt to commit murder," preferred...
...until they have returned home." As we smoked and sipped, the pair drew nearer, and I recognized the man beneath his sweat and dirt. "It's no squaw man, General," I said. "It's Bishop Brent." The General said, "God almighty, what a mistake!" And to the striker,- "Fix things for Bishop Brent!" But the khaki-clothed Bishop would not stop to eat. He had lunched with an Igorot in his mountain hut. He pushed on with a pleasant word to his furry companion who bore his canonicals and pajamas. "The Bishop," explained the General, "doesn...
...Striker is an enlisted man acting as a servant...