Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...These three hurried to Washington to begin their job of peacemaking. The United Textile Workers complained that mill owners were overworking the "stretch-out," were refusing to bargain collectively. The employers complained that they could not afford to meet the union's demand of 40 hours pay for 30 hours work...
...excursion through the Orient with Toni (Carole Lombard). He is confident that he can sell his unpleasant brother-in-law the right to adopt the child for enough money to perpetuate the irresponsibilities that he enjoys with Toni. It is partly Toni's resentment of this proposed bargain and partly Penelope's charm that make him decide, on meeting his daughter, to keep her himself. He even decides to lead a new life, and Toni believes him although she knows he has financed his intentions by selling a bogus gold mine to Sir Guy Standing. At this point, with...
Instructive was the whole proceeding. Secretary Hull announced that discussions of the trade agreement had been going on for twelve months, but it was obvious that the actual bargain must have been whipped into shape in about two months. Only hearing was a three-day session in Washington during July, but there was no public or political wrangle for the good reason that nobody knew what the terms of the forthcoming agreement were. In Cuba and Washington, manufacturers, producers, importers, were given informal hearings. No sworn testimony was taken. Interested parties were allowed to present their views, claims and kicks...
Notable was the fact that most of the Kohler employes who live in the company's model village openly sympathized with Mr. Kohler. He had agreed to bargain with the A. F. of L. union but only so far as it represented his workers. The two men killed, along with most of the strikers, belonged to that portion of the plant's workers who live in nearby Sheboygan. Last week Kohler employes in Kohler presented their village president with a petition declaring that they wanted to go back to work on the old terms, objected to outsiders' organized violence...
...doctor's reception room, makes ducks and drakes of the doctor's prescriptions. Because of the housing shortage, a man and a girl go through a form of marriage in order to share a room; though the man keeps carefully to his side of the bargain, the girl finds there is no such thing as a purely business arrangement...