Word: bargaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blooded action. Them was the days when you didn't clout a guy over the head with an epigram or plug him with a bullet; you killed him at the end of a fifteen minute sequence of dueling and overturned every table, chair, and candelabrum in the bargain...
Labor. "I stand for the National Labor Relations Act and the right of free collective bargaining. I stand for minimum wages and maximum hours, and for legislation to enforce them. I stand for social-security benefits and believe that they should be extended to other groups. . . " But over & over Wendell Willkie insisted: "That is not enough-that is not enough." Collective bargaining was meaningless to a man with no job to bargain with; minimum wages meant nothing to the man on relief; social-security benefits were endangered in view of future financial crises; the only real remedy was an administration...
...painted the picture of the years since 1933, when Labor gained "the untrammeled right, not privilege, to organize and to bargain collectively"; when laws established fair minimum wages, decent maximum hours, outlawed child labor, set up machinery for the mediation of labor disputes...
Police shut him up. They didn't have to ask who he was. They knew: Vito Gurino, 33, ex-baker, top trigger man of the Brooklyn syndicate of small-time gunmen who, at bargain-basement prices (TIME, April 1), murdered underworld characters for rival gangs. They had been looking for him. Two of his bosses were in the death house at Sing Sing, two more were on trial, others awaiting trial for their part in the 83 murders chalked up against the syndicate by Irish William O'Dwyer, Brooklyn District Attorney...
...swamp, the convicts still held out. On the morning of the second day, the convicts in the swamp sent Voncille out to bargain with the posse. They would not harm Gladys and Jerry if a car would be sent in for them, the doors open, to show that no police were hiding in it. The police refused. Shaky, but still keeping her nerve, Voncille led them to the fugitives' hideout-but after three of the convicts surrendered, and Gladys and Jerry were released, she collapsed with Gladys...