Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bituminous operators of Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, anticipating a general strike when a current wage truce ends on April 1, jointly engaged John W. Davis as their chief counsel and negotiator at a reputed fee of $100,000 per annum...
...consideration of the complaint in all its aspects," said the Commission, "leads only to the conclusion that the real objectives sought are increased wages. . . ." The Commission, as every interstate employer knows, has no power to regulate wages. The suitcase-carrying, berth-making, tip-taking brotherhood confabulated on a strike...
...Love" from Strike Up the Band-George Gershwin...
...member of the German firing squad definitely refuses to level his rifle at Nurse Cavell and he is shot on the spot. The rest line up and at the order to fire each raises his rifle so that the bullets strike above the woman's head. Nurse Cavell, however, falls down in a faint and an officer steps forward and despatches her with a pistol." The pistol used in making the film was, by way of meticulous realism, a German Luger (see photograph...
Inasmuch as the Yale Student Council and the Yale undergraduates cannot strike a happy medium between Faculty supervision and no supervision, it might be pointed out that the former as practiced at Harvard is certainly the lesser of two evils. While it is generally admitted that the Faculty of any university would free itself from what it considers a disagreeable duty, yet the artificial standards by which modern learning must unfortunately be protected seem to demand it. As for the undergraduates, the majority of whom are honest, they can and do remain personally indifferent to what machinery...