Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hearst v. Labor. Lundberg: "Hearst's financial interests, from the very beginning, have made him an implacable enemy of labor. . . . During the closing stages of the [1934 San Francisco general] strike the three Hearst papers in the San Francisco area repeatedly called upon the police to take violent measures against the strikers and the police did shoot and kill. Not satisfied, though the police and Guardsmen were in full charge, the Hearst press demanded that Vigilante bands be formed to proceed against the 'revolutionaries...
Such retaliatory measures are not only consummately unconstitutional and unjust but are above all else cowardly. They strike at those unable to defend themselves either with money or with popular and sympathetic support. If anyone doubts the truth of this let him ask himself whether the House of Representatives of Georgia has ordered Erskine Caldwell examined by a psychiatrist. Certainly the author of the famous "Tobacco Road" handed Georgia no orchids' in that brilliant yet searing expose. Though Caldwell and Peter Moody represent two totally different planes of achievement and position they nevertheless are doing the same thing:--telling...
Running off its peace meeting with dignity and decorum that belie the name of "strike", the Student Union's Peace Committee can at last take credit for raising Harvard pacifistic celebrations to the level of reason and respectability. An attitude of calm and mature deliberation held sway in Sanders Theatre yesterday which marks a decided improvement over the late reign of terror on Widener's battle-scarred steps and will inevitably do more real good for the cause of peace. Professional patriots like the Legion cannot attack the gathering at Sanders as they handled rebellious Chicago school children, or obfuscate...
...have recently learned o the preparations being made by students as Harvard and elsewhere for a nation-wide "anti-war strike." As a Harvard graduate, I should like the use of some of your space to comment upon this matter...
...applaud any efforts directed toward postponement of the future war--until our bonus has been paid and spent. The "peace strike" is a sincere effort in this direction and any success it may attain will be for our benefit...