Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labor's reply was a sympathetic strike in Warren but after one day C. I. O. called it off. The Governor's decision to allow the reopening of plants brought the C. I. O.'s full wrath upon his head. When demands that the troops be withdrawn were ignored, C. I. O. lawyers marched into Federal Courts seeking injunctions. From the Mahoning Valley Citizens Committee the Governor received a message: "Your stand is commensurate with the acts of a true statesman and patriot." But in his own capital 700 C. I. O. delegates assembled to "pledge...
Meantime John L. Lewis personally called off his 40,000 coal miners, Colonel Janeway disarmed Mayor Shields's vigilantes and Johnstown settled down to its first taste of martial law since the 1889 flood. C.I.O. picket lines, now unnecessary, were withdrawn. Despite Mayor Shields's cry of "usurpation," Colonel Janeway took over full police powers where they touched on the strike, sending the local police back to their beats or traffic posts. Otherwise the civil authority was not disturbed...
...enough, a Government fleet rounded the headland, briefly bombarded the town of Iviza, then landed 4,000 men on Iviza. A few (not many, says Paul) of the leading fascists were shot. Soon the Government army left, to retake Majorca. When the papers told of the Majorca expedition being withdrawn, mentioned Italian bombing planes, people in Iviza knew what was coming. One Sunday noon it came-four planes dropping bombs. Fifty-five (42 of them women and children, says Paul) were killed. In a rage of revenge, Government guards massacred their rebel prisoners. Paul went into Iviza next...
...Cuban Government, which had nominated him for the 1937 Nobel Peace Prize, Franklin Roosevelt sent a modest request that his nomination be withdrawn, suggested that Secretary of State Cordell Hull was more deserving of it. Since Mr. Hull, with equal modesty, had already told the Cubans that he thought the President deserved the Prize, eight Latin American republics who were preparing to line up for a costless compliment to their big Good Neighbor were left in a quandary...
...plant, dropping food on others where landing was not possible. Airplanes of the strikers performed fancy aerobatics trying to drive off the company planes. Soon feeling on both sides was bitter. The strikers swore that no food should be taken into the plants until all company men were withdrawn. They in turn were charged with firing from the ground on planes bearing food...