Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laying out such cards, ostensibly only for discussion, the British were by implication asking the French to enter into what David Lloyd George was to call later last week a "thieves' bargain." The diplomatic finesse of M. Léger was meanwhile shown when M. Chautemps and M. Delbos blandly told Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Eden and Sir Robert in effect that France was willing to go just as far in this matter as Britain-whereupon what had seemed to be British ardor to get action last week on behalf of Germany's scheme rapidly cooled, according to best...
...rate I find I have paid an average of $.67 a copy, and figure that I can make as good or even a better bargain by paying two cents for one elsewhere. If you wish to continue sending occasional copies until the end of March to make up what you owe me, please do, but I am not going to pay for any more after the first of the year...
...made compulsory by Lenin and 1,500,000 Russians were soon enrolled, with the State deducting union dues from their pay. In 1921 this policy was reversed, and Lenin made trade union membership voluntary. In the early Five-Year Plan period, Russian trade union officials were still attempting to bargain collectively with the Soviet State. They played a considerable role in shaping its wages and hours policies. In recent years Moscow dispatches have reported that this collective bargaining role of Soviet trade unions has "withered away," that the Kremlin has reduced them to the "cultural-educational role" of explaining...
According to Massachusetts law the College as the employer must recognize the right of any labor organization to offer proposals concerning wages and hours. In the eventuality that the A.F. of L. succeed in signing up a majority of dining hall workers it will have priority rights to bargain...
...constructive liberalism, he finds that the liberal state "must by its own principles encourage and protect cooperative organization of producers, such as farmers and working men, who must sell at once and at any price offered, and in ignorance of the true supply and demand, if they bargain individually...