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Word: unionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Armistice Day by hoisting a red flag atop his factory. Later, in the huge Government motor transport depot at Slough known as The White Elephant, he headed the workers' ironbound union. The Government dared not fire him for fear of arousing his followers. Solution: they sacked the whole kit & boodle-7,800 workingmen-just to get rid of Wal. Whereupon Wal dressed them all up as clergymen in surplices and paraded them through the grounds before a huge white cloth elephant, which they pompously mourned as dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wal's Work | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...Province of Quebec harbors one of the most antidemocratic, anti-liberal governments in North America. Having passed laws regulating if not prohibiting free speech, a free press and free assembly, the reigning Union Nationale Party has long been friendly to a frankly Fascist movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Houde for Dictators | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...where it turned in two smashing victories over Pennsylvania on Friday six matches to one, and over Princeton the next day seven to nothing. Princeton had previously been beaten by Yale by a score of six matches to three. This fact coupled with Harvard's recent victories over the Union Boat Club Blues and the Harvard Club, gives the Crimson team a good chance of stopping Yale's consecutive string of victories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetmen Meet Yale Squad Today With Confidence | 2/18/1939 | See Source »

Petitions calling for an open hearing concerning the charges made by Boston officials against the American Student Union will be distributed in Roxbury and Dorchester today. The plan was decided upon at a meeting Thursday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT UNION COMPLAINS | 2/18/1939 | See Source »

James Lanigan '39 head of the practical politics committee of the Student Union, yesterday denied all charges made by the Boston officials and condemned them with oversight and hasty judgement. "We definitely do not espouse any Communistic philosophies," he insisted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT UNION COMPLAINS | 2/18/1939 | See Source »

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