Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Denver is an evening paper city and its evening paper is the Post which shrieked its way to the top under rough, tough old Fred Bonfils. Denver is also a city in which Scripps-Howard has had some of the hardest going in its career. Last week the Scripps-Howard high command picked a new proconsul for its Rocky Mountain News, prayed for a change in its journalistic luck...
...Government's arming of a "Red militia" of workers was what definitely took this week's revolt out of the traditional formula of Latin coups d'état and put it into the class of Russia's revolution of 1917. Last week 6,000 tough Asturian miners marched down from the North to Madrid's assistance, as the Army rebels marched up from the South. Declared the Spanish Government: "Spanish citizens! The movement in insurrection has been subjugated absolutely and it is necessary not to lose the fight...
Blunt fact is that the American Federation of Labor is not and never has been vitally concerned with the laboring masses of the U. S. It was organized in 1886 by tough shrewd, opportunist Samuel Gompers as a loose federation of unions of skilled workmen, whose realistic aim was to establish monopolies of their skills. Through the 1920's it dwindled and declined for two reasons: 1) a lack of militant, progressive leadership as its officials became absorbed in guarding their vested interests, enjoying their fat salaries, spending their energies in jurisdictional squabbles; 2) development of machines and mass...
...Loftin Johnson, it was not only the Academy's most pretentious art possession but also the largest single panel painted in the ancient egg tempera technique ever attempted in the U. S. Thirty-five dozen fresh eggs were mixed with oil to make a tough clinging varnish for the work. Depicted amid a blaze of banners and military pomp were the great battles of the past and their leaders...
...colliery cinema Black Fury, called on 1,000 steel workers to join a great industrial union to be built over the bones of Amalgamated. Same day at nearby Brackenridge. John Brophy, director of the Committee for Industrial Organization, similarly exhorted 2,000 other steelworkers. This week 170 more tough, hardened organizers will join the 30 which the Steel Workers Organizing Committee already has sent into the field. Next week will be held a great mass meeting near Homestead, at which the graves of the workers killed in the 1892 battle will be wreathed and Pennsylvania's Lieutenant Governor Thomas...