Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Governor Earle on Monday night advocated a resumption of government spending to check the depression, he showed a sense of reality that deserted him a few moments later when he condemned as "rot" Robert Jackson's charge that business had gone on a sit down strike against the government. Such a charge is rot only if we take Jackson to mean that a handful of magnates have formed a revengeful cabal to sabotage the New Deal. The National Association of Manufacturers is really an elegant institution. But Jackson was not ridiculous when he claimed that the policies of large...
...government can, of course, use its power as a purchaser to bring prices down. But it would have to face the same sort of reaction that greeted the Walsh-Healey act. The refusal of big steel to bid on navy contracts came pretty near to being a sit down strike. And the government can try to instill new vigor in America's puny consumers cooperatives movement...
...response to a question asking his opinion of the soundness of Solicitor General Robert Jackson's recent condemnation of a "sit-down strike of business against the government." Governor Earle said. "I won't comment on the rest of the speech, but talk of a business strike is damned rot. Business is not organized to go on strike...
...night, slowly recovers his balance only to die in the riots when mobs rule the city and thugs assault his sweetheart. John Hargedon, after a long career trapping and abandoning girls, is himself trapped into marriage by a shrewd wench who despises him, robs a house during the strike, shoots two gangsters after the same loot, and dies an ironically heroic death...
Unabashed in writing purple passages, Author Gilligan is at his best in communicating scenes of disorder like those that mark the beginning of the strike: "In and out of hovels and flats, from boardinghouses to cheap hotels . . . the word ran from mouth to mouth: mouths of thieves, mouths of safebreakers, mouths of pickpockets, mouths of rowdies, mouths of the half-dead, mouths of the gamblers, mouths of the whores. . . . Throngs of hoodlums moved in secret, waiting for some one deed to start a great one." As a result, readers are not likely to have much confidence in his portraits...