Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...again raised the issue that they could not go back to work until Seaman Body Corp. (manufacturers of Nash bodies) settled with its workers. In the Detroit area, a strike threatened by the Mechanics Educational Society (tool & die makers) was called. More than 3,000 tool & die men walked out of 100 small job shops which would not grant their demands for a 20% wage increase, 7-hr. day, 35-hr. week. Last autumn the tool & die makers crippled the entire automotive industry with their strike. But the efficacy of their new walk-out was minimized by the fact that...
Last fortnight, after eight months of unsuccessful wrangling with AAA and NRA officials, the flour millers became the first industry to walk out cold on General Johnson. Their departure raised the question: Should the Administration crack down with its biggest club-power to license industries if they want to do business at all. That posed another bigger question. NRA was given two years of life by the Recovery Act but the licensing club was given to the President for only one year, ending June 16, 1934. If the President wants to use the club after that date he must...
...play-acted as matadors he was acknowledged the best. It was dangerous play: they swam the Guadalquivir at night, climbed into a bullpen and played the bulls naked, using their shirts as matadors' capes. Banderillero Calderon took Belmonte under his wing, taught him everything he knew, made him walk every day to strengthen his feeble legs, carrying an iron rod. From the very beginning of his career Belmonte was frequently hurt: his bad legs made it impossible for him to run fast; he always let the bull pass him too close for comfort, sometimes too close lor safety...
...told youse I used to be a fighter, that's part of my hidden past. Yeah, it's true. I was getting along swell until my first fight when I found out my nose get in the way. I was going to walk out of the ring when the guy (jeez but he was a tough mug) popped me right in da puss. I guess I just wasn't cut out to be a battler...
Pacifists who walk out of their classes on Friday morning at 11 o'clock as a protest against future war will not be molested by University Hall, it was announced last night by Dean Hanford...