Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Massachusetts State Prison, Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti heard last week that they were to die. Mrs. Sacco and two advisers brought the news. For an hour and a half, they talked together, while prison guards listened and looked. Mr. Sacco (then on the 19th day of a hunger strike) mumbled over and over: "I told you so, I told you so," as if in rhythm with his throbbing, withered arteries. Said Mr. Vanzetti: "I don't believe...
...address begins as a novel and ends as a tract, the recent general strike in England developing from a background into a thesis. The reader is left with an impression of Mr. Wells as a very sincere and vigorously intelligent man who has grown impatient and tedious...
...offer no encouragement to Sacco-Vanzetti adherents. There had been not the slightest official indication that the case has taken an unfavorable turn for the condemned men, but both the prisoners themselves and their defense committee had seemingly lost faith in Governor Fuller and his advisory committee. The most striking evidence of their pessimism had been the continuation of their hunger strike. Mr. Sacco had been on his hunger strike since July 17; Mr. Vanzetti had been virtually fasting for the same period, though he at least drank coffee during the first few days of the strike, at one time...
...American Tobacco Co. makes "Lucky Strike," "Herbert Tareyton," "Melachrino," "Omar" and "Pall Mall" brands of cigarets. "Lucky Strike" is its best advertised and most popular brand; it sells for 15c a package of 20. The others are more expensive. Straw-tipped Melachrinos sell for 35c a package...
...must have studied up on lurid picture postcards, Philip Downes revolts against his calling and celibacy. Attacked by bloodthirsty blackamoors, he narrowly escapes with life and wife back to Ohio, where he enters a steel mill and espouses his fellow-workers' cause. Just before they go on a losing strike, he slips off unexpectedly into a career of painting...