Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said the union had been in hot water with Messrs. O'Connor and Henkle since last March, what with cops roughing up negotiating committees, thugs beating up officers and shooting up headquarters. Manager Henkle said his company had been in business 65 years and proposed to continue without benefit of the closed shop and checkoff. The union thereupon gave Mr. Prince's representatives a choice of 1) a general strike in Armour plants, or 2) armistice pending talk about a written contract...
McGillivray of the Creeks, by John Walter Caughey (University of Oklahoma Press, $3), tells of a Creek Indian chief of the post-Revolutionary War period who was known as the Talleyrand of Alabama for his skill in playing off Spanish-American antagonisms for Creek benefit. Son of a Scottish trader and a French-Indian woman, McGillivray owned slaves, suffered from venereal disease, died in his 303, preserved the Creek nation a full generation...
There is an important question that will have to be decided soon for intercollegiate, amateur football. Is it to be played for the benefit of the players and their immediate collegiate cohorts, or is to be a spectacle staged for the entertainment of the public? The Tournament of Roses officials are now being seriously criticized for nominating Duke to play the University of Southern California in the floral classic. Apparently some feel that the public would prefer Texas Christian University to the Blue Devils. This opinion has been crystallized in the words of certain Californian sports writers, one of whom...
...intention of negotiating the British and Canadian pacts last November, buyers began to order from hand to mouth, waiting to see what would happen. With the fog lifted last week, U. S. manufacturers of office equipment, electrical appliances, tractors, oil pumps, leather goods, silk hosiery charted plans to benefit by the most favorable concessions in the pacts. Automobile manufacturers, although disappointed at not getting duty concessions, thought that gains for U. S. farmers might mean an improved domestic market for motors...
...other. For this the reason was clear: the new trade treaty has been in the wind for several months and Wall Street discounted it in advance by rising, knowing that, though certain individual concerns might be hurt, any broad revival of international trade could not help but benefit U. S. industry as a whole...