Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opponents, Edwin W. Radley, president of the Anti-Vivisection Society of America, and Walter F. Costello, treasurer of the same organization, attacked the bill on legal grounds...
When it started bargaining last fall on a new contract, the New England unit (around 12,000 members) of the C.I.O.'s United Shoe Workers of America loudly demanded a raise of 15? an hour. Last week it quietly signed a contract with 90 Massachusetts factories without a boost in pay, thus became the first big union to forgo a raise this year...
Rickard's death-and the depression-put the Garden into the red. Kilpatrick, a construction man, was picked to pull it out. Kilpatrick was fond of sports. At Yale ('11) he had been an All-America end as well as a Phi Beta Kappa. Kilpatrick cut out the mammoth free-ticket list, broke up the under-table deals with ticket speculators, put less stress on boxing, more on hockey (the Garden owns the cup-winning Rangers), the circus, ice shows and rodeos. By 1935 he hit the black with a profit of $179,568, has stayed there ever...
Last week, as they unfolded the terms of their agreement, Johnston and Wilson beamed fondly at one another. Said Wilson admiringly: "Johnston was a tougher negotiator than the Russians." Said Johnston of Socialist Wilson: "Were he in America, he would have made a great capitalist." Both parties to the deal stood to gain by it, and neither had anything to lose. In Hollywood, there were a few who called it a good deal only by comparison with the "confiscatory" 75% tax. Producer-Director Sam Wood spoke for the optimists: "Removal of the tax gives the green light on the greatest...
Americans, hopeful of finding some shred of sense in their Government's action, offer oil as a reason. But although Arab oilmen may make threatening gestures at first, in the long run Arab shrewdness will prevail. They realize that America alone has the price for their oil and they are hungry enough for dollars to sell the precious liquid to the United States. Oil alone is not the answer...