Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Priscilla's crew had been conducting a sit-down strike in New York harbor and came ashore only when driven by hunger. In Fall River, the striking crew of the Commonwealth packed their kits, debarked with sombre faces. For not only was their strike ended but so, it seemed, was the Fall River Line...
Over the mountains there is no room for 1,000,000 tribesmen. French settlers and more sedentary tribes have long preempted all the available cork forests, vineyards, barley fields. Suddenly alive to its danger, the Government last week sent Administrator Steeg and his party to the scene of the hunger march, and voted $2,250,000 relief money to match $450,000 which the Banque d'Etat de Maroc has already put up to buy food for the starving tribes. Distribution of free barley and mutton has already started...
...smoking for women, preachers and other church workers. Unscheduled, a 28-year-old minister of Anniston, Ala. named Rev. Charles R. Bell Jr. arose to cry: "We must face the real issues of life. ... I cannot adopt such a weak report in a day when we are faced with hunger throughout the land. . . . Why is there nothing in this report condemning conditions among the sharecroppers . . . ? Starvation wages . . . ? You talk about the brotherhood of man. Why, there are Negroes standing outside the door of your convention and you won't let them in! This convention ought to go on record...
...bleak, jittery summer of 1932 a 19-year-old Negro communist organizer named Angelo Herndon led a hunger march of unemployed on Atlanta's courthouse. A few days later he was arrested, held for eleven days without charges. Then Atlanta prosecutors dusted off a Reconstruction law providing the death penalty for "any attempt ... to induce others to join in any combined resistance to the lawful authority of the State." In all its 66 years no one had ever been convicted under that statute. Chiefly on the evidence of communist pamphlets found in his possession, a Georgia jury found...
...dogs became frantic with hunger, boatmen grew fearful that the pack would swim out and capsize them, steered clear of the island. Soon the last lean dog gave up gnawing his dead fellows' bones...