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Word: walks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University dining halls today threatened to strike unless College officials conceded their demands for higher wages and a closed shop. As a result of a secret, almost unanimous vote late Monday night the cooks and waitresses, who represent 90 percent of Harvard's kitchen workers, decided to walk out on Monday unless the officials capitulate immediately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dining Hall Workers Threaten Walk-Out | 3/8/1939 | See Source »

...leader revealed that with only three dissenting votes three hundred union members had-voted to walk out next Monday, "If we can't get a closed shop, we expect as least an increase in salaries and the removal of the compulsory insurance deduction from the pay checks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dining Hall Workers Threaten Walk-Out | 3/8/1939 | See Source »

Pointing out that the effect of the walk-out will be the complete breakdown of the dining hall systems in the Houses, at the Union and graduate school eating places, Stefani announced that A.F. of L. teamsters had pledged their support and will refuse to deliver food to the College. At the same time the strike will have the active backing of the Cambridge Central Labor Union, an organization of 30,000 workers in the city...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dining Hall Workers Threaten Walk-Out | 3/8/1939 | See Source »

...games were wild and wooly affairs with plenty of excitement provided by each team, but the Crimson sextet last night was a thoroughly played-out team after the Montreal tilt the night before and was hardly in a position to prevent the league-leading McGill outfit from staging a walk-away victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lions Top Hoopsters; Sextet Breaks Even in Canada | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

...attacked by arteriosclerosis with gangrene of the legs, and lay at the point of death. After his amazing recovery he had to give up his daily constitutional in the Vatican gardens, for leg pains, which often accompany hardening of the arteries, so crippled him that he was able to walk only a few steps at a time. He could not climb stairs, had to be carried from one audience chamber to another. Shrunken and pale, with hollow cheeks, he stuck to his job until last summer when he suffered a severe attack of the cardiac asthma which had troubled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Medici Papae | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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