Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Early photographs of the incomplete Kroll mural created a mild buzz in Washington when it was discovered that the black-gowned jurist lending a helping hand to oppressed workmen was an obvious portrait of Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, onetime Republican Attorney General, good friend of Leon Kroll and one of the Court's steady liberals...
Starting its season early the Memorial Hall clock undergoes its first repairs this week as workmen build scaffolds on the faces for an annual touching up and minor repair...
Minneapolis. No parade was waiting to meet him, for Minneapolis is in the grip of four mill strikes and a parade might have been seized on by radicals as occasion for a demonstration. When he left the Nicollet Hotel to go to the municipal auditorium, a small group of workmen was waiting for him. "Boo!" they shouted, "We're for Roosevelt! Boo! You're just another Hoover...
...general way his life is made unbearable. Consequently the men join the cellules for the sake of peace and quietness and to be allowed to get on with their jobs and draw their wages. And when the people above declare a strike- contrary perhaps to the wishes of the workmen's own Trade Unions-the cellules must obey...
...Spanish workmen of the Red Militia, desperately battling to save Madrid, outnumbered two-to-one last week the advancing spearhead of White professional soldiers 67 miles from the Capital. Ensued a conflict savage in the extreme, with Madrid claiming that the Whites had been pushed back 15 miles, and Seville headquarters of the Whites saying they had defeated the Reds. But the week brought one decisive action in Spain's bloody stalemate...