Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boast by Paul F. Kassay, young Hungarian, led to his indictment two months ago under Ohio's drastic criminal syndicalism law.- Kassay was a mechanic at the Goodyear-Zeppelin airdock where the Navy's Akron was being built. He bragged to workmen beside him that the great dirigible would never take the air because he was craftily leaving loose rivets in her frame. The workmen turned out to be U. S. Department of Justice agents who yanked Kassay off the job, turned him over to the State of Ohio to be prosecuted as a dangerous radical (TIME, March...
Next day Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair flew over from Dallas, 110 mi. to the west, to see his costly cauldron. He found the entire countryside shrouded in haze. Workmen were busy clearing away 20 acres of pine forest surrounding the flaming gusher, trying to remove bits of the white-hot derrick and machinery. There was not much that Oilman Sinclair, always popular with his men, could do but assure speedy pensions to the families of the victims...
...purple, yellow. All day and all night delirious crowds paraded, cavorted, gyrated in the streets with red stockinet "liberty caps" on their heads. Policemen who had been shooting at these same people three days before, turned their cloaks inside out to show the red lining, and grinned broadly. Workmen, feeling frightfully self important, chopped the crowns and shields off public buildings. In the midst of the celebration, some far-sighted official sent a fire engine to the Royal Palace. The firemen posted up handbills: PEOPLE OF MADRID RESPECT THIS BUILDING. IT IS YOURS...
...amnesty bill and restore to Cuba's people the Constitutional rights which Dictator Machado suspended last autumn. Fascist Medicine- As an antidote to Italian business depression Dictator Mussolini prescribed lowered wages and lowered prices three months ago (TIME, Dec. 1). Fortnight ago came the first strike by Italian workmen in many years (TIME, April 6). Last week Dictator Mussolini decided that his patient had taken enough anti-depression medicine. "We have reached a limit [in wage cuting]," declared II Duce at Rome, "beyond which it is impossible to go without running into danger that the antidote may become...
...soon added the genuine confidence and friendship of her subjects. He discovered they were being impoverished by grafting tax collectors; got the grafters removed and put in his own men. When he wanted to build a house he had his policemen round up vagrants whom he turned into paid workmen. Some of his other activities: judge, lighthouse keeper, sanitary inspector, census taker, doctor. The baby problem he solved by sending for the late Dr. Luther Emmet Holt's Care & Feeding of Children...