Word: trolleyers
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...Governor Eduardo Baeza Alegria laid the blame for the riots on "Communist agitators." That might well be true, although Barceloneses could understand their grievances without help from the Communists. The current battle of Barcelona followed a remarkable, week-long rebellion over a simple, nonpolitical issue: the price of a trolley ride...
...fare rise (March i) approached, protest posters appeared on walls, chain letters floated through the mails: "Be a good citizen, show your courage. Starting March i, hoof it to work." Kids chanted in the streets: "If you want your morning jolly, stay away from the trolley...
...passed, and still Barcelona s staunch people walked. After one stormy meeting at the city hall, Governor Baeza Alegria announced: "What we need is a civic example from the highest." Out he marched, and boarded a streetcar to set an example for strikebreakers. But he rode alone. Eventually his trolley bumped into a stone barricade, and he gave...
...stacked with flowers. Shortly it became stacked with Pennsylvania well-wishers, many of whom had ridden into political office on the Duff coattails, had traveled on to Washington bedecked with yellow ribbons reading "Good Luck, Jim" to celebrate "Duff Day." Scowling with happy embarrassment, Duff took the subterranean trolley over to the Senate chamber with his senior colleague, Senator Ed Martin...
...with the confusion over the new censorship policy that the Pentagon called Colonel Echols home to find out what was going on. Meanwhile, the Army's information chief, Major General Floyd Parks, asked U.S. editors for "forbearance . . until we get this thing on the trolley...