Word: brought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smoking Dr. William Leiserson, 56, appointed to the Board eight months ago, with a reputation as a labor mediator. Dr. Leiserson stated the case for NLRB about as well as it has been stated. He denied that the Act needed amendment. He reminded the Committee of the conditions that brought about the Act-the use of labor spies, the discrimination against good union men, the tragedies of violence in labor disputes, the old hostility against labor legislation...
...night Ben brought home a book of tickets for the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes. He told Frances, his daughter, to pick one, and they scraped together $2.50 to pay for it, wrote on it, "Just Must Win." Plump, 40-year-old Pearl prayed to God that they might...
This year Netherlands troops guarding the frontier with Germany were visited on St. Nicholas Day by the mitered Saint, bearing aloft his bishop's crook and preceded by capering Peter, who brought sugar cakes for the soldiers. Dutch cameramen snapped St. Nicholas peering through field glasses at cruising bombers outlined against the sky. Amid jollification, Saint and minion tasted the troops' pea soup, which gulping Peter pronounced "prachtig" ("swell...
Under Nazi rule Herr Thyssen became economic dictator of heavy industry, member of the Prussian State Council, a Reichstag member, chairman of a dozen boards. He had no more labor troubles on his hands, since the Nazis suppressed the unions. Rearmament brought millions of marks' worth of orders to the steel mills. The Thyssen empire prospered again...
...wrote Correspondent Leland Stowe of the Chicago Daily News last week after interviewing a batch of prisoners brought in by the unconquered Finns. Correspondent Stowe found them "helpless, tragic wretches. . . . The Russians wore Army overcoats of a cheap, part-wool mixture and uniforms of quilted cotton. . . . None of the men we saw had high boots, but they had ordinary shoes-and several of them, as a result, had feet so frozen they could hardly walk. . . . All said they were reservists, mostly of the class of 1925, and had been called up only three months ago. Most of these men were...