Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clothing Workers (TIME, April 19), commenced drawing textile workers into C. I. O., signing up man after man in mill after mill, many a bystander wondered what would happen to whom when Mr. Hillman chose to call a strike, 1937 model. Last week, in throwing & weaving mills in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New England, he chose to do so. When 40,000 of the 60,000 U. S. silk & rayon workers obeyed his orders, they got an unexpected answer...
When the Nazis came to power in 1933 some 500 secret police, intelligence men, and agents of the Ministry for Propaganda descended on London, began to check up on Germans living permanently or temporarily in Britain. Last week the New York Times' astute commentator "Augur" estimated that there are 20,000 Germans in London alone-including refugees, businessmen, domestic servants-many of whom have been enrolled willingly or otherwise in various Nazi organizations by such agents as Langen. The organization of domestic servants is so closely supervised that the British Foreign Office has warned its members not to engage...
Manfully Zurich detectives and policemen worked to prevent Nazis or Swiss Jewbaiters from causing any incidents during the Congress, but at week's end Swiss fascists managed to knock the hat off Rabbi Wolf Gold, once of New York, now of Palestine, and to bloody the nose of a British delegate...
...Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium last week an all-Gershwin program by soloists and the New York Philharmonic Symphony attracted 20,223 people, largest audience in the Stadium's history...
...York City's Staten Island last week, a 57-year-old WPA house painter used a grasshopper in a bottle to lure a 4-year-old child to a shack in a marsh where he attacked her, strangled her, and then left her dead under a 50-lb. lump of brick and mortar. In The Bronx it was discovered that nine little girls aged 9 to 12 had been voluntarily submitting to indecencies at the hands of a 56-year-old plumber and a garage proprietor, 64. In Brooklyn, a 37-year-old ex-convict, only seven months...