Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate had heard in years, a story of "dark evils of bloody warfare, sickness, suffering, hardship, privation, want and hunger. . . ." It was Senator Hiram Warren Johnson of California describing, not without politico-oratorical flourishes, the condition which Pennsylvania permitted its two-and-a-half-year-old coal strike to reach this winter (TIME...
Senator Johnson's speech was florid but fair. It outlined the causes and history of the strike. It repeated the miners' charges, the operators' defense and countercharges. It laid blame heavily, but more important than laying blame it focussed public attention upon immediate, imperative necessities to which blame seemed irrelevant...
...cries out to know more of the modest great. This has, unfortunately not been true with the Reverend Paul Sterling, MeIrose clergyman who has just revealed himself as the prime mover in Boston's recent campaign of book censorship. In this instance Cinderella herself has been obliged to strike the hour of unmasking...
...play takes place near the Russian battle lines in 1917, when the revolution was in process of engulfing the power of the Czar. Jannings plays a heroic figure without any glozing or sentimentality. The Grand Duke, according to our lights, is not an admirable fellow in his daily life. Strike him ever so lightly and you find the Tartar said to lurk in all Russians. He is possessed with high spirits without the restraint which our civilization acquires before a high spirit may be appreciated. His all-absorbing passion for Russia, however, his desire for her good over that...
...expert in armaments. As long as things are left to him, we can expect armaments and more armaments. Only statesmen, who know how to keep the naval experts in their places, who strike out body, with their eyes on a common policy, can give the world what it requires...