Word: sweepers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Generalissimo of what may become the No. 1 strike in U. S. history was Francis Joseph Gorman. Thirty-one years ago, aged 13, young Francis arrived in the U. S. from his native Bradford, in Yorkshire. In Providence, R. I. he got a job as a sweeper in the Atlantic Mills. When he was 20 he joined his first union. Since then he has been more interested in the manufacture of labor solidarity than of textiles. In 1928 he was elected vice president of United Textile Workers, the job he still holds. After Thomas F. MacMahon, the Union...
...superintendent of an Atlanta pencil factory. In April 1913, a 14-year-old worker named Mary Phagan was found violently murdered in the factory's basement. Two days later Frank was arrested for the crime, tried and convicted largely on the testimony of a Negro employed as a sweeper in the factory. New York City Jews rushed to Frank's defense, raised funds to appeal his case in vain to the U. S. Supreme Court, charged Georgia with "railroading" him. This outside interest caused Georgians to lust for Frank's blood, guilty or innocent. Racial and sectional...
...stay with his Aunts Adelaide and Emily, small Compton Mackenzie first came in 1887, Queen Victoria's Jubilee Year. That date he remembers less because of public celebrations than because of The Street's ancient crossing sweeper who one day startled the neighborhood by suddenly shouting, "God save our gracious Queen," and forthwith standing. perched on a pile of gutter sweepings, on his head. He was not the only topsy-turvy thing about The Street. Its houses were all on one side and all their numbers, from 1 to 25, were odd. This gave Mr. Lockett, the grandiose...
...five miles west of the spot where the searchers worked. Off rushed the minesweepers. divers, planes, the M-2's sister ship M-3 to the new spot. Trawls struck an object, lost it. A sound was heard, like tappings, but proved to be the noise of a sweeper. Two flags that had belonged to the M-2 were brought up before the lines parted. The seas grew heavier, slapped against the sides of the searching ships, but below the surface there was no sound. The 48 hours of air and life in the M-2 were...
Next day Skipper Gulliver set out from Boston on his travels to exhibit the Constitution in 18 Atlantic ports this summer. Thousands watched in silence as the old frigate was towed away by the mine sweeper Grebe, her brand-new sails tightly furled. Her crew of 60 was too small to handle her under her own canvas (Captain Isaac Hull had 450 men when he beat the Guerrière). Her first port was Portsmouth, N. H. but at Gloucester she had to be towed in because...