Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same time the Harvard Socialist League will hold a "strike against war" in Memorial Hall with a panel of labor speakers and refusal "to support the government in a war" as the cardinal point on its program...
...windows broken, its stacks smokeless, is a wild ruin; Stief's Cut Rate Drug and Quick Lunch occupies the banking room of the defunct Shenandoah Trust Co. But once John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, rode triumphantly up Main Street. Joseph Beddal was killed during the strike of 1902 trying to smuggle arms to strikebreakers besieged in the Reading station. In Muff Lawler's saloon on Coal Street, a young detective named McParlan, hired by President Gowen of the Reading, joined the Molly McGuires, later gave testimony that sent ten Mollies to their death. When Gowen...
During his "exile" in the U. S. (he returned to Paris two months ago), Elliot Paul wrote a novel, Concert Pitch, and spent much time studying U. S. labor. The result is The Stars and Stripes Forever. A strike novel laid in a one-man manufacturing town in Connecticut, it contains no Communist character, goes light on leftist propaganda. Conceit rather than the C.I.O. accounts for the fact that the villain, Tycoon Loring, finally gets the whole town down on him, including the high school football team. With its neat plot and smooth dialogue, The Stars and Stripes Forever...
...Branch i, American Federation of Hosiery Workers, William Leader et al. (TIME, March 27). The verdict: Branch i & its President Bill Leader would have to pay the well nigh impossible sum of $711,392.55 in recompense for damage done Apex's plant and business in a strike two years...
...musical director, Leopold Stokowski. First storm-signals flew when word leaked out that Conductor Ormandy had fired fuzzy-headed first cellist, Isadore Gusikoff, because Gusikoff "made him nervous." Cellist Gusikoff promptly sued for the rest of his season's pay, proudly admitted that he had conducted a "silence strike" while sitting in the orchestra, accused Conductor...