Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This happened to strike the adult Indian children of the British Rajas straight, sincere and moving talk. Into quite another part of his address the new Viceroy tucked the following, for Indian boys and girls who might be listening in: "Children, I speak to you as your King-Emperor's Viceroy and as your friend. Remember that when you grow up it will be with you that the honor of your country will rest. I shall very often think of you. Fear God, honor the King-Emperor, and obey your parents...
...debate, was forced to retreat from the rabble-rousing attitude which he struck recently at Poissy, addressing throngs of French workers beneath an enormous banner poster of himself remindful of those unfurled at Moscow to glorify Stalin (see cut). With his Communist supporters highly approving the stay-in-strike technique, Premier Blum felt constrained to tell the Chamber at 6 a. m.: "Occupation of factories by strikers cannot continue and shall not continue. The confidence which the working class has in the Government dispenses with the necessity of employing any methods other than those of conciliation and arbitration...
...activity." To this familiar gesture, the miners made a familiar answer. Last week Walker County's Central Labor Union Council, having unsuccessfully demanded the dismissal of crusty School Superintendent Albert Sidney Scott, had called a good share of the county's 17,000 schoolchildren noisily out on strike...
...ventured to class. One zealous unionist smashed a schoolroom window with a brick. Another threatened to horsewhip a teacher. Now thoroughly agitated, the Teachers' Association met at Jasper Courthouse, unanimously agreed to keep clear of the A. F. of L., assured Superintendent Scott that no teachers were on strike. Whereupon Superintendent Scott appealed to Alabama's Governor Bibb Graves to get the students back to school...
Outside big, red-brick Memorial High School in Campbell, Ohio, one morning last week 800 pupils milled excitedly, shouting at 200 who were pressed anxiously against the windows inside. Those outside were "on strike" because School Superintendent Andrew S. Klinko had abruptly shifted Memorial's popular journalism instructor, sandy-haired 29-year-old Michael Graban, to a grade school. Up sped a squadron of police, ordered the strikers to disperse. When they refused, the police, hardened by many a riot in nearby steelmaking Youngstown, tossed two tear gas bombs into their midst, drove them coughing and sneezing down...