Word: weekends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mounted officers charged into the crowd with nightsticks swinging. At that, Detroit's sympathy began swinging back to the strikers, and United Automobile Workers' young President Homer Martin seized the occasion to threaten a city-wide general automobile strike unless the police raids stopped. After a weekend lull, police evicted sit-downers in a printing plant, a W. P. A. station. Labor and the Law moved toward a showdown as Detroit's City Council unanimously refused the automobile union's request for permission to stage a huge mass meeting in Cadillac Square, and Homer Martin blustered...
After a motion for reconsideration had held up the repeal of the Teachers Oath Bill over the weekend, the House of Representatives refused to submit to a third roll call and sent to the Senate yesterday the legislation which will be debated in the higher body on Wednesday...
...Buddha's ancient ashes and 50,000 lotus petals. Turning temporarily from his plans, the little Japanese took the gold Buddha down to Fresno, about halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. There Rinban Masuyama gave the statue to a Fresno priest named Enryo Shigefuji, and spent the weekend elevating Fresno's two-story, pagoda-roofed Temple to the status of San Francisco's that of Betsu-in or chief in the locality...
...however, because Section 2188 of New York Law says "once a sentence starts it must not be interrupted." To remove this obstacle to interrupted jail terms, last year bills were introduced in the Legislature to amend the law, but Governor Herbert Lehman vetoed them on the ground that the weekend sentence idea had not been tried out enough for State-wide adoption. He suggested legislation be passed applicable only to Rochester...
...weekend party in a country home; seven men invited to a shoot by a bachelor host, and five of the guests sit down one evening to a game of poker. Their game is suddenly interrupted when one of the players, Mr. Grant, accuses Major Daviot of cheating. The charge is supported by Captain Bradford, Major Daviot's brother officer...