Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gust of wind blew out the storm doors and plate glass front of the Goldfield Hotel at Tonopah. Nobody cared. There was a fresh "strike" at Barrel Springs, five miles from Weepah. The rushers swerved thence, eddied back, chattered, milled around, boasted, dreamed...
Ernst is associated with the League for Industrial Democracy, and was formerly connected with the Passaic strike on the side of the workmen...
There the rushers found Frank Horton Sr. triumphant on the site he bought for $25,000 six years ago. They fanned out and staked the plains for six miles all around the "strike." Icy winds whipped down from the range but fresh goldrushers swarmed up against it by scores every hour. A blizzard swooped in, but claim pegs flew in with the snow...
These words were not balm for the soul of an Eli nor yet again would the strike with anything like smoothness on a son of Old Nassau. I asked several ladies of my acquaintance about this and their replies were polite enough; but usually they had a smatter of frankness in them. "You Yale men have no small talk", I remember being told. "And as for Princeton men--they have nothing but small talk...
...spared, he will henceforth treat all workingmen like brothers, never again allow a monster like Efficiency to be created. The villain topples off the roof. With Efficiency and Invention thus disposed of, happiness comes to man, the hero finds the heroine's lips, Labor and Capital strike hands, the city destroyed by evil counsel of Efficiency is to be rebuilt-how, is not divulged. Ufa might better have shut the eyes of its great cameras than permit them to reflect nonsense in such grandeur...