Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the establishment of law & order, Vigilantism in California remains a potent and honored means of squelching those suspected of Communism. Typical was the treatment accorded last August to Silva M. A. ("Jack") Green, sign painter. and Sol Nitzberg. chicken raiser. Reds who promoted an apple-pickers' strike in Sonoma County. One night a band of unknowns seized Green and Nitzberg, clipped their hair, stripped them to the waist, doused them in crankcase oil, feathered them, paraded them through the streets of Santa Rosa, made them kiss a U. S. flag, booted them out of town...
...Publisher Blethen, the strike marked "the most shameful page in Seattle's his-tory." Snorted he: "The merits of the controversy ... are of no consequence whatsoever. . . . Only two questions are involved: Is the Constitution of the State of Washington valid? Is the Constitution of the United States in effect?" His queries he answered himself: "The Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Washington were suspended by one Dave Beck, head of the Teamsters' Union, and one John Dore, Mayor of Seattle. Gone is constitutional government. Gone is majority rule and the freedom...
American Tobacco, which makes the biggest single time purchase on N. B. C.'s books, also carries a relatively small talent budget. Though Lucky Strike's weekly Your Hit Parade is played by routine bandsmen, it offers this season a unique merchandising trick characteristic of American Tobacco's rampant, sensation-loving President George Washington Hill. The program purports to present the week's 15 most popular songs. Mr. Hill promises to give a carton of his cigarets to every listener who correctly predicts, in order of popularity, the first three songs. By last month, the "Lucky...
Starting first on the original strike, they dug shallow shafts and open cuts over an area 800 ft. by 400 ft., found gold wherever they dug. Working with a primitive "coffee grinder" mill, they began turning out $500 worth of gold a day, paid off the two prospectors within a year and up to last week had taken $80,000 in gold out of the earth. Last week the dazzling story of the Jumbo strike spread across the country on the authority of no less a mining expert than Herbert Hoover...
...Guild's demand for the reinstatement of Lynch and Armstrong was refused. The Seattle Central Labor Council promptly announced that the Post-Intelligencer was "unfair to organized labor." The Guild ordered its membership out, claimed 40 newsmen from the Post-Intelligencer's staff of 68 answered the strike call. A picket line around the publishing plant was formed, aided by the redoubtable Teamsters', Loggers' and Longshoremen's unions. Careful to explain that they "were not on a sympathetic strike," the Post-Intelligencer's typographical men simply refused to pass through the tough picket lines...