Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ability of its venerable institutions to change quickly, to face a crisis, to adjust its slow-turning machinery to the swift emergencies of war. Test of Britain's men was not the sincerity of their aims, which few besides Hitler questioned, but their ability to act promptly, strike hard if necessary, change their pace as Hitler changed...
...charter, Stagehand Browne stepped in, gave Whitehead and his rebels an I. A. T. S. E. charter. This maneuver threw the actor-stagehand brawl into the laps of the A. F. of L. executive council. But no satisfactory compromise was forthcoming. To touch off a jurisdictional strike that might shut down Broadway's eleven shows, cripple night clubs and radio stations over the land, close Hollywood studios and possibly (through I. A. T. S. E.'s control of projectionists) every cinemansion in the U. S., only a suitable "incident" was lacking...
...stagehands' union (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes) has had its eye on the plushy performers' unions (allied in the Associated Actors & Artistes of America). Between them, white-collar A. A. A. A. and no-collar I. A. T. S. E. are in a position to start such a strike as the U. S. entertainment industry has never experienced, and all summer it has been touch-&-go whether their long-simmering jurisdictional disputes could be settled without war. Last week came the crisis all showfolk have been dreading...
...agreement in detail. Soon after that hints of what was coming began to appear in the German press. Said the Volkischer Beobachter on May 26: "National Socialism does not war against a State because that State has a different content from our own. .. . The anti-Comintern pact does not strike primarily at the State, but ... at Bolshevism when it reaches out beyond Russian borders. . . . That is the German viewpoint and it also appears favorable to the Kremlin...
Weakest spot in the weakened Hearst empire has for many months been the Chicago Herald & Examiner. Further devitalized by a Newspaper Guild strike, which cost it an estimated $30,000 a week in advertising revenue, the Herex was kept going for two reasons: 1) it accounted for 1,000,000 circulation of Hearst's rich American Weekly; 2) it was one of Chicago's two morning newspapers. Last week the bankers who manage the Hearst finances decided they could no longer carry the Herex. This week it merged with the evening American, leaving...