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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breaking of contracts with employers and the unemployment of thousands of workers." It also decreed that leaders or abettors of outlaw strikes may be suspended or expelled from the union. But lest congenitally independent U. A. W. A. members suspect a sellout, it pledged that "should the management attempt wage cuts, the impairing of working conditions, or the refusal to settle legitimate grievances . . . the International Union will not hesitate to authorize strike action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Fraternal Bucking | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--Chairman James A. Farley of the Democratic National Committee tonight pledged full administration support to party nominees in the Pennsylvania Primary in a new attempt to end a fend which has crushed CIO leader Lewis' bid for political power and threatens Democracy's prospects in the state...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 5/19/1938 | See Source »

...clean two-bagger standing up. Lacking Fairbanks' punch and ken. he has Robin's form and flair down pat. If prankish Actor Fairbanks was a man's Robin Hood, handsome, romantic Actor Flynn performs for everybody else. A head-thumping, sword-swishing, bow-twanging technicolor attempt to foreshorten the popular episodes of the Soo-year-old saga into the perspective of a single connected story. Robin Hood 1938 makes the last of Richard I's crusading years its period, draws a bead on Regent Prince John's tax oppression that should bring a nod from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...attitude indicated shows the abject respect for established thought and the consequent stultification which now paralyzes the department. Surely Goodwin has not had the last word to say on this subject, and the class receives from its lecturer a shop-worn tradition instead of an active attempt to forge valuations and conceptions in contemporary terms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASSICAL DOLDRUMS | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...outdone Bill Stickel cleared the loaded bases for Columbia in the fifth inning of the second game, and in the seventh Bob Stolz for the Lions got a four-baser with one on, after falling flat on the ground in an attempt to hit a previous Ingalls strike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity, '41 Oarsmen Triumph; Baseballers Retain League Lead | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

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