Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scene in the best strike traditions was put on, however at M.I.T. last night in which violence and bloodshed played a real part. On the spot observers declared that many were arrested and more received head and other injuries from forays with police...
Last week 16 hospital employes and the president of the Hospital Employes' Union, Fred Gardner, went on trial as a result of that strike. In addition to routine accusations of forcible entry & detainer, committing & maintaining a public nuisance, conspiracy to prevent others from working, they were charged with violating a New York statute passed in 1881. "A person who wilfully and maliciously . . . breaks a contract of service or hiring, knowing . . . that the probable consequence of his so doing will be to endanger human life, or to cause grievous bodily injury, or to expose valuable property to destruction or serious...
Succeeding Jerome D. Barnum of the Syracuse Post-Standard, Foxhunter Stahlman brings a dynamic, self-confident personality to the ANPA's presidency. He broke a strike which attempted to unionize the Banner's mechanical force seven years ago. Inheritor from his grandfather,* German Immigrant Edward Bushrod Stahlman, of both the Banner and his grandfather's famous quick-temper, Publisher Stahlman sometimes bursts violently out of his office into the city room waving aloft a copy of the Banner and shouting, "Who made this damned mistake?" Operating in a poorly paying newspaper town, he drives himself as hard...
Interrupted by the motor strike, the Taylor-Lewis conversations were resumed the next month in Manhattan while Mr. Lewis was dealing with the coal operators. Again Mr. Lewis managed to dodge newshawks, presumably slipping into the Taylor mansion at No. 16 East 70th St. As a diplomatist Mr. Taylor had to paint for Mr. Lewis a terrifying picture of his board of directors, the men who must in the end accept or reject the settlement. To his board Mr. Taylor was painting an equally terrifying picture of Mr. Lewis and what he could do to the steel industry now that...
...matter-of-fact, English-speaking Frau Mann, who hovered near, adroitly answered for him. In voluntary exile in Zurich since Hitler came to power, officially deprived of German citizenship last December, his property confiscated and books burned, Dr. Mann nevertheless held his tongue, waited until the right moment to strike back...