Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next noon the Prime Minister consented to another trial, and started to read a short greeting, timed to end just as Big Ben commenced to strike. All went well until Mr. Baldwin lost his place in reading, paused awkwardly, and upon resuming did not get to the end of his remarks before Big Ben's 132-tons began to reverberate...
...turned out to be. There is something bold and fine in the conception of a pair of apteryxes defying gunners on the top of the chimneys of the Cambridge Gas Company. There is a charming and not heavily exaggerated view of the Cape Cod Canal; and the aviation photographs strike a not which is but seldom sounded in the current rotogravures...
While Conciliator Charles G. Wood of the U. S. Department of Labor was preparing to leave Elizabethton because of the dark prospect for a strike settlement, Governor Henry Hollis Horton of Tennessee appointed Major George L. Berry, popular president of the International Pressmen's Union, as a state representative to bring about peace. Both sides cheered...
Perhaps the most striking tribute Edward of Wales was ever paid-or is ever likely to be paid-was voiced last week by notorious "Emperor" A. J. Cook, the ruthless apostle of "class war" who provoked the disastrous British General Strike (TIME, May 10-24, 1926). Nine Tories out of ten would not disbelieve anyone who told them that Mr. Cook has actively plotted to topple down the British Throne. He has publicly "thanked God for Moscow!" because from that city he received thousands of gold rubles to promote the General Strike. Just now the fortunes of "Emperor" Cook...
...Bassett '31 who incurred a slight injury in batting practice the day before, starting F. E. Nugent '29 in the leadoff position. He put B. H. Ticknor '31 in centerfield, when he learned that the gymnasts were starting their southpaw Lipp, but Ticknor continued in his batting slump, striking out three times. Nugent drew a walk in the first inning. E. H. McGrath '31 singled, and a passed ball which rolled into the Crimson dugout let them both in. A moment later when the catcher dropped his third strike. Ticknor saw first base for the first time since early...