Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prevent a recurrence of the Pennsylvania coal troubles elsewhere NRA appealed to the country for a moratorium on strikes and lockouts. Approving this, too, the President declared it was "on a par with Samuel Gompers' memorable War-time demand to preserve the status quo." Appointed by him to adjust NRA labor troubles was one more board chairmanned by New York's Senator Wagner. Labor's Windfall. Despite the President's declarations, the all-important issue of unionization behind the coal strike and many a lesser strike in other lines throughout the land had only been postponed...
...into the President's vacation most of the week. He signed trade codes for wool textiles, electrical goods, women's cloaks & suits. He approved Administrator Johnson's temporary settlement of the Penn sylvania coal strike (see p. 11). He announced the Government's readiness to adjust its contracts with NRA subscribers confronted with higher manufacturing costs. He wrote a letter to a Philadelphia woman who named her baby girl Nira, chuckled over the discovery of a town called Nira (pop. 20) in Iowa. ¶ Another career diplomat was promoted last week when President Roosevelt appointed Arthur...
Chairman of the conference was Virginia's white-haired, benign John Garland Pollard who spoke on the desirability of mortgagees and mortgagors getting together voluntarily to adjust their debt. But the 62-year-old widower made far more news when he scuttled...
...Passed a House bill to continue for another year the 1? per gal. gasoline tax, to reduce local postage from 3? to 2?, to authorize the President to adjust other postal rates as he sees fit; sent it to conference. The House bill transferred the 3% electricity tax from consumer to producer. The Senate bill put a 2% tax on the producer of commercial and domestic electricity, a i% tax on the industrial consumer...
...Washington he was reported to have hired Mabel Walker Willebrandt to adjust his case with the Treasury Department. When these overtures failed, he was said to have offered $150,000 to Treasury representatives if they would drop prosecution...