Word: striker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germany further claimed, last week, another submarine blow to the Royal Navy: a cruiser either of the London (9,750-ton) class or the Dorsetshire or Norfolk (9,925 tons). The alleged striker: Lieut. Günther Prien, 31, Hero of Scapa Flow...
...told WPA supervisors everywhere to cut off the rolls any WPA "striker" who did not return to his WPA job in five days...
...Zionist cause. This got her a job covering the Zionist conference in London for International News Service and made her a newspaperwoman. To her new career she brought the same mixture of romanticism and vitality that had made her a successful suffragette. She got the last interview with Hunger Striker Terence McSwiney before he struck out in Cork, Ireland. She got the only interview with Empress Zita in Budapest after the second Karlist putsch failed. She borrowed $500 from Sigmund Freud to go to Warsaw and covered the Pilsudski revolution in evening dress. She was almost shot in Bulgaria...
...Hearst home circulation offices the first day. On the second the American advertised "$5 FOR PHOTOS." Later the Herex offered "$50 WEEKLY FOR NEWS TIPS AND NEWS PICTURES. . . . ALL INFORMATION IS CONFIDENTIAL." But both papers continued to get editions out with police assistance. Most distant striker: American Sports Writer Jim Gallagher, who was in New Orleans for a baseball meeting. Notable strike breaker: Margaret ("Maggie") Sikora, who has been working as a Herex stenographer since her "Model Husband," Rudolph, was acquitted of killing her sweetheart. At week's end, 46 American strikers announced through a Hearst spokesman that they...
...bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach; not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous...