Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trade unions join a sympathetic strike. They put him off by electing a "strategy committee" to lend moral support, but San Francisco's toughest union, its teamsters, did not temporize. It voted 6-to-1 to strike unless the dock dispute was settled in three days time. A truck strike, as Minneapolis learned two months ago, can tie up a city's entire business. Moreover 3,400 striking teamsters might spread the strike warfare all through San Francisco's business district. The prospect looked grimmer and grimmer to San Franciscans and to Governor Merriam who soon might need thousands...
...President of France, the entire French Cabinet, the president of the University of Paris and scientists of three continents gathered in a lecture hall at the Sorbonne. The year was 1908. Two years before Marie Curie's husband, absorbed in his dreams, had been killed by a truck. Marie Curie had been appointed to the chair of physics which he had held, first woman to hold a Sorbonne professorship. This was the occasion of her first lecture. She appeared in a plain black working dress. She bowed politely, waited for the applause to stop, turned to her class sitting...
...Toledo Auto-Lite strike and the Minneapolis truck strike were fought with clubs. The other strikes of 1934 are to be fought with boards. Under his new authority President Roosevelt last week began replacing the old National Labor Board with new and smaller agencies to ease the tension on the industrial front. The first board created was for the biggest current strike; the second was for what threatened to be an even bigger strike...
...While the dignified, gentle Farmer-Laborite Senator remained in Washington until Congress adjourned, made no campaign, his obstreperous opponent filled the Minnesota air with sound and fury. On the stump Candidate Shoemaker poured vitriol on everyone within reach. He was arrested in shirtsleeves, swinging a broomstick, during Minneapolis' truck strike riots. When the vote was counted last week quiet Radical Shipstead had beaten loud Radical Shoemaker no less than 3 to 1. The blatancy of Mr. Shoemaker had been too much for even Minnesota's Farmer-Laborites. Moreover, he had found in the editor of the Hibbing, Minn...
...firemen, track walkers and coal miners are all more honest than college students (56%), who are in about the same class as servants and carpenters. There is not much choice between hotel help, restaurant help, common labor and automobile salesmen (47%). It is a toss-up between barbers and truck drivers. Worst risk are painters and decorators, rated...