Word: beset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Traveling a rocky road beset by amendments since hearings began last May, the Black-Connery Wages & Hours Bill, spurred on by Franklin Roosevelt, nevertheless leaped over barrier after barrier, seemed headed for enactment. Out of the Joint Congressional Committee chairmanned by Senator Black and the late Representative Connery, this "little NRA" jumped: 1) the Senate Education and Labor Committee. 2) passive resistance by the A. F. of L., later modified, 3) the Senate by 56 to 28, 4) Congresswoman Mary T. Norton's House Labor Committee...
...years later two San Francisco capitalists, Selah Chamberlain and Harry W. Cole, decided to salvage the wreck. Legal squabbles beset the reclamation at once, the biggest coming when the State Highway District claimed the right-of-way to link it into the Carmel-San Simeon Highway. Civic clubs, chambers of commerce and the like have joined forces with the State to wrest the road from Ocean Shore R.R. Last week the battle still raged in court. Meanwhile, Downey Harvey, hav-ing lost $5,000,000 and been forced into bankruptcy, never entered business again. Convicted of fraud...
...sporting background of the bark that plays its title role, but records some of the more sombre legends which sailormen repeated about The Wanderer. She had been launched in blood, killing a workman who was pinioned on the ways as she slid down into the water. Fire and plague beset her voyages. Slaving, outlawed by international agreement in 1814, was practiced in the middle of the century by a few renegade skippers who risked hanging for the $600 to $1,000 per head they could obtain...
Into and out of Superior Court in Los Angeles last week moved an ugly squabble which has long rent the Angelus Temple of Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson (TIME, Jan. 18). Moody Sister Aimee, beset by fears that people are trying to wrest control of the Temple from her, has succeeded in estranging her mother Mrs. Minnie ("Ma") Kennedy, her daughter Roberta
Having maneuvered Mr. Lewis and his directors into willingness to compromise, Mr. Taylor was then beset from another quarter. Some independent steelmen got wind of the Taylor-Lewis meetings, went to see Mr. Taylor. Apprised of the conversations, the independents argued heatedly for a wage boost instead of recognition. Mr. Taylor thought that wages were not the real issue and a wage increase could be avoided if recognition were granted. In this he was wrong. But confused by Big Steel's sudden refusal to play with them, the independents did nothing about their own scheme. In the time thus...