Word: apexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sculptor Lantz was afraid his rent was going to be raised, because he had just won the biggest commission ever awarded by the Treasury Department's Section of Painting & Sculpture -$45,600 for two heroic stone figures to be placed on the terrace of Washington's new "Apex" building, into which the Federal Trade Commission will move in May. Big and simple, Sculptor Lantz's designs, each of a gigantic work horse held in control by a powerful man, were adjudged the best of 247 entrants by a jury uniquely chosen by ballot among the competitors...
...American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers' appeal from a Circuit Court of Appeals injunction which ended an Apex Hosiery workers' sit-down strike in Philadelphia last June (TIME, July 5). If the lower court decision is upheld, sit-down strikes in industries in interstate commerce can hereafter be stopped by injunctions...
...when he called NLRB a "kangaroo court" which should be scrapped before it made "economic hash of our national welfare," Senator Gerald P. Nye last week resumed fire on the floor of the Senate, attacking the Board for failure to hold an election in Philadelphia's strike-wrecked Apex Hosiery Co. (TIME, July 5). The North Dakota Senator trumpeted: "If a great Government is going to tolerate administration by a board or a bureau which in turn is going to tolerate practices of that kind, the hour is not far off when Americans are going to be reminded that...
...degree Mason Franklin Roosevelt took a trowel in hand and with a dab of real mortar laid the cornerstone of the future home of the Federal Trade Commission (see p. 55), a structure known as the Apex Building because it will tip the triangle of Government buildings between Pennsylvania and Constitution Avenues...
Fearing this application of the anti-trust laws to labor disputes could be easily broadened into a major strikebreaking weapon, Labor proposed to carry the Apex case to the U. S. Supreme Court. Meantime the Apex officials gave the sit-downers 24 hours to evacuate the plant. As the zero hour approached, Philadelphia's Mayor Wilson persuaded the sit-downers to leave peacefully, led them out in person. After one look at the plant. Apex officials rushed back to the Courts claiming that on the last day the sit-downers had wrecked the mill from office to basement...