President Roosevelt seizes the railroads to avert a nationwide strike. His decision to temporarily place the railroads under the ?supervision? of the War Department prompts the five railroad brotherhoods to agree to his offer to arbitrate the wage dispute - 1943
Seventy-two copper miners? children die in panic caused by a company stooge at Calumet, Mich., who shouted ?fire? up the stairs into a crowded hall where the children had gathered. They were crushed against closed doors when they tried to flee - 1913