Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed by a majority of 215 the Conservative Government's highly reactionary Trade Unions Bill (TIME, May 30), drafted to prevent the recurrence of the British General Strike (TIME...
...this Pastor John Roach Straton was responsible, cried five deacons at the church meeting last week. The antics must cease. Indignant, members of the Bible class, huddled together like college students yelling for their team, prayed that the Holy Spirit strike Deacon John Hurst, chairman of the Evangelistic committee, in salvation or else in punishment. Before police might come, sober members of the congregation hushed the malcontents. The deacons resigned...
...Deutsch out, bunted third strike...
...drastic measure designed to throttle and paralyze the trade unions should they ever attempt a repetition of the General Strike (TIME...
Many a picture has been taken in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, of reeling, dripping men with their eyes swollen shut, their noses bleeding, their knees weak, their arms painfully raised to strike each other more blows for the glory of becoming champion pugilists or for the bald necessity of fighting to earn a livelihood. People glance idly at these fight pictures at home, in the newspapers...