Word: fled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When 63 gassed, weeping, retching sit-downers fled from two North Chicago plants in 1937, they presented U. S. Labor and jurisprudence with the celebrated case of NLRB v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. (TIME, March 1, 1937, et. seq.). Issue: Sit-down v. Property...
...last week soldierly Sir Reginald wavered, retreated, resigned, fled to his home in suburban Brussels for good...
...Producer Gabriel Pascal last year astonished the cinema industry by screening the first of a series of Bernard Shaw's plays, whence all but him had fled. Last week, en route from Hollywood to London to start work on The Doctor's Dilemma, he stopped off in Manhattan long enough to announce his future plans: a repertory company to make two Shaw pictures a year and, in 1940, a film biography of Amelia Earhart, to be made with the assistance of her husband, George Palmer Putnam, and a score by Conductor Leopold Stokowski after the expiration...
...decided to stay in Barcelona for the time being, but announced that they had taken all "necessary measures to guarantee against any eventuality the continuous administration of the State and the work of government.'' In other words, the Negrin Cabinet, unlike the Largo Caballero Cabinet which hastily fled from Madrid to Valencia in late 1936, decided to remain at their posts until there could be no doubt that the city was lost. They would then flee...
Major difficulty with census-taking in Russia is that the peasants are census-shy. In the days of the Tsar they fled from or fought with census officials, fearing that their women were about to be carried off or that all the aged and feeble were going to be boiled in soap. Today their fears are less fantastic, more shrewd: they consider counting noses just another way of picking victims for purges, taxation, the army...