Word: would
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were union people, men, women and children, members of United Textile Workers (subsidiary of the A. F. of L.). They had heard that, as the result of a strike last summer (TIME, Sept. 9), the company was transferring all union workers to the night shift. Then the night shift would be discontinued for a while and the union workers got rid of. "Now, men," Sheriff Adkins says he said, "You will have to stand back and let anybody through that wants to come to work." Someone in the crowd shouted: "Over our dead bodies, then!" A day shift man shouldered...
...told Marthy, thank God a man who believeth in Jesus Christ is not dead. "We know that we are not very high in society, but God loves us. ... O, what would Jesus say if he passed through Marion? He's weepin' at all this scenery." At Gastonia. The Marion murders gave North Carolina its sixth textile tangle now current in the courts. One of the other trials, that of 16 workers accused of murdering the police chief of Gastonia, got going again last week at Charlotte after repeated delays (TIME, Sept. 23). The 16 defendants, mostly Northern organizers...
...should patronize your magazine. I formerly thought your magazine was a rather dependable institution and read it every week. Lately, however, your magazine undertook to publish a statement of the impeachment effort made against me in this state (TIME, April 8). It is almost unbelievable that you would have been guilty of propagating the fraudulent misrepresentations of fact, and refusing to mention the abandonment of such various and sundry accusations even by those making them. For instance, you published to the world my picture, as though I had undertaken to hire some scoundrel to kill a member of the State...
...Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Now, said the President, it could be told: he and Prime Minister MacDonald had agreed to have the latter issue invitations to France, Italy and Japan to discuss naval reductions with Britain and the U. S. in London on Jan. 20. The invitations would go out on the morrow (see p. 27). Like most momentous news it was very simple. There was nothing more to say - yet - about the historic "conversations." So the President helped the world press out a bit by telling Secretary Akerson that the autumn foliage in the mountains was brilliant, beautiful...
Frank Billings Kellogg, Coolidge Secretary of State, was dragged in. Said Shearer: "'Nervous Nellie' Kellogg called the Bethlehem crowd on the mat and told them that the $15,000,000 war profiteering case against their company would be pressed unless I was fired...