Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...NLRB promised little for the NLRB to do in the immediate future, unless Bob Denham forced some action. Nobody else, particularly employers, seemed to want to get tough. In fact, just the opposite was the case. In advance of Taft-Hartley Day last week, many employers helped unions to beat the law's deadline and to evade some of its provisions...
Clock Watchers. Elsewhere, other unions raced the clock and beat it with management's help. In New York City, the day before deadline, the C.I.O.'s Communist-dominated United Electrical Workers got a union-shop agreement from the Radio Corporation of America's RCA Victor Division. In Cleveland, the big, strong International Typographical Union's convention adopted a policy of not signing any future contracts, thus skirting the Act's closed-shop ban (see PRESS). Across the country many minor strikes and disputes were settled close to the deadline; in some cases, clocks were stopped...
...month, he began teaching young Jake how to swing a tennis racket. Each day, the youngster spent three hours on trolley cars, traveling the 18 miles between his home and Skeen's Beverly Hills court. Gradually his strokes took on a Skeen sheen. At 15, Jake easily beat Alice Marble, who was then women's singles champion...
...open doubles T. Zinsser and Cohodas downed Dolloff and R. David, 6-0, 6-2; J. Anderson and Bob Ashley beat Keevil and VonBlon, 6-0, 6-4; Wendell and Zinsser defeated A. A. Bothner and J. Nelson, 6-0, 6-0; and Hanley and Deland topped Hall and Stearns...
...under these comic collegiate clothes the hearts of even the careerists and the drunkards beat with romance, and could be stirred to a passion of loyalty at a hint that our college . . . was not the best in the world." His chapters on New Haven in the early 1900s explore the functions of the college, where, by his estimate, little education was given or gained, and the plight of the faculty which "never, so far as we know, got drunk, swore, fornicated, swindled, never did anything except lie, play politics and be mean...