Word: armbands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Actors Guild got producers to meet its demands by a threat to join the strike of the Federated Motion Picture Crafts (painters, scene designers, hairdressers, make-up artists) which began April 30. By last week, Crafts pickets had been reduced from indignant lines to a single bored armband wearer at each studio gate. On the same day that the actors began working under their new scale, Federal Labor Conciliator Edward A. Fitzgerald arranged a compromise between leaders of the striking group and its rival, the International Alliance of Theatrical & Stage Employes. Basis of the Fitzgerald compromise was that scenic artists...
Alighting at Naval Headquarters extremely vexed, Mr. Robison tried to lodge complaint, was pushed in the chest by a Japanese civilian wearing a police armband who shouted: "I am a Japanese. Don't!" Previously the Japanese Consul General had given official assurances that there were now no more Japanese "armband police" in Shanghai, but four of them set upon Mr. Robison, striking him with their fists while Japanese bluejackets laughed...
Prudently, Adolf Hitler gave his Gang time to think things over. He set a date nine days distant after which any insubordinate gangster would be expelled from the ranks. Expelled last week, however, were Storm Captain Stennes and two aides. Glowering, they prepared to doff the swastika (armband Hitler emblem. See cut). But they also talked of founding a new party, said that storm commanders in Brandenburg. Pomerania. Mecklenburg and East Prussia had promised to join them...