Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Such as: Railroad Signalmen, Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers & Helpers, Railway Carmen, Firemen & Oilers, Train Despatches, Clerks & Freight Handlers, Express & Station Employes. †The eight-hour work day was set by the Adamson Law (1916) under threat of a national rail strike...
...showmanship would be countenanced, that sound husbandry would prevail in the granting of awards. For the first time it became publicly known that for years certain breeders have been injecting their cattle with subcutaneous matter (oils, paraffin) to fill out sags and wrinkles in their animals carcasses. Even Lucky Strike, last year's grand champion steer, owned by 20-year-old Elliott Brown of Rose Hill, Iowa, who used his prize money to pay off the mortgage on his homestead (TIME, Dec. 16, 1929), was found when slaughtered to have had his hide lifted. Said Chief John R. Mohler...
This year young Farmer Brown had no entry, but he led the grand champion. Jimmy, a coal-black Aberdeen Angus like Lucky Strike, into the prize ring. Aberdeen Anguses have won nine international shows, more than any other breed. Jimmy's owner is Banker J. Frank McKenny of King City, Mo. whose herdsman is Elliott Brown's uncle. There was no chicanery about Jimmy's championship. He was sold for beef at auction to the Breakers Hotel, Atlantic City, for $2,700, or $2.50 per Ib. (Last year's prizewinner was bought by Chainstoreman James Cash...
...Socialist M. P.'s, she rich with the millions of her late, great father Marquess Curzon of Kedleston.* "Sir Oswald Mosley has taken his political life in his hands with brilliant fearlessness," wrote Editor Garvin. "He is the only leader of his generation who has the courage to strike out a new path." With 15 fellow M. P.'s including Oliver Baldwin (Socialist son of Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin), the Mosleys had just signed and published a purple manifesto. Declaring that "world conditions on which our [Britain's] former relative prosperity was based have entirely changed...
...Bureau officials had foreseen these storms, but had not warned the public. Last week they explained why: it is impossible to tell just where tornadoes will strike, therefore "to predict them would cause more trouble by the unjustified anxiety aroused than is likely to be done by a tornado itself." To this the New York Telegram retorted editorially...