Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...national governments has dragged through courts and congresses and war. Recent years have seen the states quietly increasing their own jurisdiction, even as the federal administration has stepped, more or less successfully, into their affairs; the establishment of state police, the summoning of militia in last spring's strike, the bill pending now before the General Court limiting the small town's power of appointing local officials, are indications of this trend...
...anyone can lead India's lazy enervated Hindus to strike a virile blow at Britain, that someone is the Pandit...
With Edward of Wales safe home from Africa and "present in the Kingdom," as head of the Crown Council, the Empire waited, last week, for Death to strike George V or pass him by. Whatever the event there would be no slightest break in that splendrous super-human continuity which endures, not the King but the Crown...
American Tobacco Co. this week announced the appropriation of $12,300,000 to advertise Lucky Strike cigaret in 1929. Of this amount, $6,500,000 will be spent in newspapers, virtually every U.S. daily being included in the list; $3,000,000 will be spent for billboards, $1,200,000 for magazine space, $1,000,000 for window displays and other "dealer helps," and $600,000 for radio. The $12,300,000 appropriation is probably the largest sum ever invested in the advertising of one product. General Motors has spent about $17,000,000 in a year's advertising...
Last week in the course of growing and shipping bananas 27 workers were killed, more than 100 wounded. The cause of the casualties was a strike; the cause of the strike, as usual, was ascribed to Reds...