Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Labor's good friend, Franklin Roosevelt, has a good Arkansas friend, Utilities Tycoon Harvey Couch, who owns an 863-mi. backwoods railroad line, the Louisiana & Arkansas. Last September some 400 of its engineers, firemen, brakemen and conductors walked out on strike. Demanding restoration of a wage agreement abrogated in 1933, they wanted the company to bargain jointly with their five union brotherhoods. President Peter Couch, the owner's brother, once an L. & A. fireman himself, insisted on dealing with them separately. He hired strikebreakers to keep in operation the railroad's service between Dallas, Tex., Hope...
Last week the biggest, most serious maritime strike in U. S. history ran through its second week with all three coasts fretted by waterfront squalls and with peace negotiations slatting dismally in the doldrums...
...also joined in the cry of "Communism!" Led by Negro Vice President David E. Grange of the International Seamen's Union, they tried to provide crews for all ships vacated by Curran's "outlaws." Claiming that "the only 'outlaws' in the present seamen's strike are the I. S. U. officials," Curran charged that Grange had failed to make a proper accounting of $143,000 in union funds, had constantly accepted fees from shipowners. Evidence of this was so strong that a New York Court ordered Grange and other I. S. U. officials to produce...
...next to infinite, with Paul Haakon dancing, Gracie Barrie singing, and an abundant troupe of resplendent beauties trapsing about in the most enticing outfits. The entertainment, being far from uniform, is also not uniformly good. "De gustibus" you know, and what looks like joyous lustiness to some will strike others as pretty crude comedy. Everyone, however, is guaranteed to come out with the memory of his own trio or quartet of favorite acts, which will have satisfied him he had his money's worth...
...after he had been expelled from college where he was studying to be a priest. It ended, 549 pages later, with his going to sea after he had destroyed his mother's last hope, had a love affair with Sheila, his brother's wife, witnessed a general strike. Most vivid characterization was the demoniac Mrs. Fury, who fought the squalor that rose like a flood around her and was defeated in every hope...