Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arab leaders, heretofore hopelessly disunited, proceeded to join forces under Mufti Haj Amin el Husseini and declare a general strike...
...Heard the Special Standing Committee on Labor assure worried members that: "Any strike is futile if it meets determined and courageous publisher resistance...
...years ago when the radical American Student Union tried to prod U.S. high-school and college students out of their classrooms for an hour to protest against war, only 25,000 students responded. Last year the Union held a second strike, rallied 200,000 strikers. With better organization and a European crisis at hand, an estimated 500,000 student strikers last week observed the third Peace Day. While the Emergency Peace Committee was imparting to the occasion a religious flavor (see p. 32), the student Peace Day gave signs of turning into a full-sized and characteristically noisy national institution...
...League of Women Shoppers was born last June when a few ladies left a tea at the home of Mrs. Arthur Garfield Hays to call on Nathan Ohrbach, who runs a big bargain dress store on Manhattan's Union Square. Merchant Ohrbach had had a strike on his hands for months. To their great surprise the ladies left his office with the realization that they had suddenly settled the Ohrbach strike. Mrs. Hays was promptly chosen as first president of the League of Women Shoppers. Among early members were Writers Genevieve Taggard and Josephine Herbst. The organization developed...
Tall, dimpled Evelyn Preston, president of the League, asked why 1935 earnings failed by 50? per share to cover the $1.60 dividend. President Milburn said most of the difference was due to produce losses (30? per share), the farmers' milk strike in Illinois (10? to 15?) and a strike of milk wagon drivers in Milwaukee (remainder...