Word: tears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adopting strong-arm tactics, a handful of police, who were looking for a good fight, decided that the hour had come to show the taxpayers that their money was not being wasted. So, raring to go, a stupid handful of "cops" used tear gas, abusive language and "got rough". The result was rather alarming, as a mob that had been genial, even-tempered and in a sky-larking mood only several minutes before, became surly and pugnacious. It was not until bursars cards were confiscated, and the tear gas began to take effect that the riot was broken up with...
...coal mines of West Virginia, very much at odds with John L. Lewis. Now secretary for the C.I.O. in New England, he appeared at Lewiston fresh from a conference with Leader Lewis. When strikers emerged from a union meeting and tried again to cross the Androscoggin, police used tear gas and clubs to turn them back. In Auburn another riot ensued when police dispersed a crowd that advanced on two shoe factories that were still operating...
...Vermont Avenue near K Street, well off-centre in official Washington, stands the inconspicuous, yellowish little Denrike Building. Its ninth floor is occupied by Federal Laboratories, Inc., whose business, according to evidence lately presented before the Senate Civil Liberties Committee, consists largely of furnishing employers with arms and tear gas for use against striking workers. On the fourth to seventh floors are housed the National Labor Relations Board and its no employes. Since October 1935, obscured by a cloud of uncertain legality, hedged about by injunctions, its authority doubted by Labor and challenged by Capital, the Board has labored inconspicuously...
...Tear-dimmed blue eyes, watching- down the street-in vain...
...true value of meetings at which students frankly tear to pieces their various departments and then try to rebuild them again like castles in the air, depends on two things. First, those who testify must be as fair and conscientious in judgment, and as frank and open in offering suggestions, as they possibly know how. Second, the men who write up the reports must interpret the sentiments of the group on the witness stand with accuracy, and must compile the information with clarity and absolute freedom from bias. With such a set-up on the part of both witnesses...