Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end, only two more major battles remained, over amendments 1) to strike out the section of the bill abolishing the office of Comptroller General and 2) to except a number of agencies from the group which the President could change. With two victories to their credit, Administration Senators felt reasonably confident of winning their final...
...hrer duly took into account, but not in the way expected. Since he had barred London and Paris from aiding Czechoslovakia by making the Rome-Berlin Axis stretch uninterruptedly from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, the problem last week was whether Moscow from the east will strike across Poland or Rumania to aid Prague. Orator Hitler has compared himself to a somnambulist and last week he advanced like a woman in her sleep unerringly to the wallet in which Czechoslovakia's President Eduard Benes may be said metaphorically to keep his treaty with Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin...
...winner of lost causes; of heart disease; in Chicago. Agnostic, bitter opponent of capital punishment ("organized, legalized murder"), Darrow never prosecuted a case, never had a client executed. His great defenses: 1) Socialist Eugene Victor Debs, arrested (1894) on a charge of conspiracy in organizing an American Railway Union strike-acquitted; 2) William D. ("Big Bill") Haywood and colleagues, accused of plotting assassination (1905) of Idaho's Governor Steunenburg - acquitted; 3) Brothers John J. and James B. McNamara, charged (1911) with dynamiting the Los Angeles Times Building- imprisoned; 4) Nathan F. Leopold Jr. and Richard A. Loeb, for murder...
...first undergraduate affair in which Karpovitch took part when he entered college in 1906 was a meeting where the students decided not to attend classes for two weeks. Throughout the year strikes continued for political reasons. A small minority refusing to obey the dictates of the strike committee came into sharp conflict with the striking students...
...years Akron pay scales have been higher than those of most other cities. This caused little trouble so long as most of the major rubber firms were concentrated in Akron. But in 1936 Akron rubber workers staged a strike which raised wages still further. Goodyear, Firestone and to a lesser extent Goodrich then began building plants in such scattered spots as Oaks, Pa., Jackson, Mich., Fall River, Mass. Akron now produces only 40% of U. S. rubber as against 55% two years ago. Akron rubber workers, however, still cling to their high wage rate (an average of $1.05 an hour...