Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the new President of Argentina, Hipolito Irigoyen, is a fiery Laborite (TIME, Oct. 22), his inauguration was hailed by the potent longshoremen's unions of Buenos Aires as favorable to the success of their strike (TIME...
Flatly contradicting and blasting this expectation, President Irigoyen ordered the dispute arbitrated by his Ministry of Interior, with the result that last week the strike had been completely stamped...
Last week this happened at Massachusetts Agricultural College (coeducational) when 220 girls sullenly refused to appear for their noonday meal in Draper Hall. The food, they declared, was poisonous; a few of the more delicate girls had been sick because of it. They went on strike...
...Every year in the U. S. educational world there is a food strike. Usually, because of more easily outraged palates, more tender stomachs, the strike occurs in a girls' college...
...Henry tells the one and only lucky typewriter mistake. "Her typewriter began to rattle and jump like a strike-breaker's motor car," wrote O. Henry in his short story, "Springtime a la Carte." . . . How, unable to find her sweetheart in New York . . . her money running low . . . she earned her meals by typing menus . . . and hammered out instead of "Dandelion Greens with Hard-Boiled Egg," "Dearest Walter with Hard-Boiled Egg." And fortunately "Dearest Walter" wandered into the restaurant, found his name on the menu . . . and they lived happily ever after...