Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stand in the path of Mr. Lewis, but to put out the incidental conflagrations on his route is Ed McGrady's job. For the ship strike, his present chore, would be a trifle compared to a major tie-up of Motors or Steel. In the struggle between the old and new leaders of Labor, the ultimate measures of success will be which can recruit the greatest number of supporters. Organizing new unions nearly always breeds serious strikes. Furthermore strikes are themselves the best means of recruiting union members. Ultimately, if the struggle goes on, jurisdictional strikes...
...Kentucky Infantry on the Mexican border in 1916, went to France with it in 1918. In the St. Mihiel offensive he was cited for valor, promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. At the head of a troop of Kentucky National Guardsmen in 1921 he put down a riot in strike-torn Newport, was promoted to Brigadier General of the National Guard. Grateful Newporters presented him with a saddle horse, and for similar service citizens of Fort later gave him a set of silver. But as the years passed, hard-bitten General Denhardt won the dislike of many a Kentuckian...
...freighter West Mahwah of the Pacific Argentine Brazil Line has lately been held in San Juan, P. R., by a crew strike (TIME, Nov. 9). One night last week it finally cleared the harbor. Few days later, into the office of U. S. District Attorney A. Cecil Snyder marched four ragged youths, three of them Puerto Ricans, the fourth a 16-year-old from Washington, D. C. named Rothwell Burke. Filing complaints against the West Mahwah, young Burke and two of his companions signed affidavits to the following story...
With Summer H. Schlichter, professor of Business Economics, as their chairman, members of the Labour Relations Committee of the Student Union stage their first big party here tonight in a three-cornered debate on the maritime strike...
Speaker for the regular officers against the strike, Evan J. Jones, vice-president of the Eastern and Gulf Sailors' Association, is the only one of the three men originally scheduled who is sure to be in Emerson D at 8 o'clock...