Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Detroit's municipal agency put 2,500 to work. Muskegon started a SPEND-A-MILLION-A-WEEK campaign to break a "buyer's strike." Lions club through out the land took up the idea, got the governors of nine states (Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, New Jersey, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, New Mexico, Ohio) to issue proclamations for a "Confidence-in-Business Week...
...deah old Harvard Ladies," and then continue in an equally intelligent vein; and there are the humorless, but conscientious Harvard alumni who write in and deplore the Crimson's "hasty and unwise policy;" still others hold "older men," viz., the board of directors, responsible; and a few strike out boldly in their wholehearted approval...
...none too soon to begin planning the earthworks, barricades and other defenses necessary to the full enjoyment of a modern convention. With Canada so handy and the river full of speedboats, the 1931 event should set a record for all time. And Detroit, never having had a police strike to practice on, can't begin too soon to insure its plate glass and anticipate a magnificent patriotic occasion. It is comforting to know, however, that if Detroit is razed to its foundations. Baltimore, Seattle, etc., will be lobbying for the American Legion convention...
...First big strike under auspices of the A. F. of L. since the White House conferences occurred last week, when 4,000 textile workers walked out of the Riverside & Dan River cotton mills at Danville...
...Germany (see p. 18), found him taciturn, truculently unwilling to be interviewed-until they told him about the disaster of which he had not heard. Shocked into conversation Mr. Ford repeated again and again, "Horrible, horrible!" With the nation economically depressed the R-IOI'S loss seemed to strike brutally deep into Britain's present pessimistic psychology. People gathered on street corners to ask each other WHY? They had known the R-IOI affectionately as "The Old Bus," looked upon her as a vital link in the new, swift transportation chains of Empire...