Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This exchange last week officially signaled the rise of dual unions in the automobile, aircraft and related supply industries. Each continued to call itself United Automobile Workers of America. One is a C. I. O. union, to whose acting presidency homely, placid Roland Jay Thomas of Detroit was elected last week by his suspended colleagues on the old union's executive board. Homer Martin's U. A. W. remained for the present independent of both C. I. O. and A. F. of L. (like David Dubinsky's International Ladies' Garment Workers). In this circumstance lies...
Europe raced last week toward another dictator-manufactured international crisis. Italy called out 60,000 men for training, stationed 30,000 troops at Genoa and La Spezia. France virtually doubled her mobilization speed, decided to call up 80,000 recruits in April instead of October. Britain took the first step toward conscription (see p. 16). From Germany came alarming reports of troop movements: five new mechanized divisions had been created, two whole divisions, equipped for "desert operations," passed over the Brenner Pass into Italy headed presumably for Italian Africa, trucks were requisitioned and "spring" maneuvers were scheduled to start February...
Last week the dignified old matriarch of U. S. museums, Manhattan's Metropolitan, bestowed a grandmotherly kiss on the forehead of art's guttersnipe youngster, Walter Elias Disney. Everyone was pleased that the Metropolitan should accept a picture by Walt Disney's studio, and call him "a great historical figure in the development of American art." But many who saw the picture were surprised at the Metropolitan's choice...
...stockmarket fell last week three days before Barcelona. Stock prices had been weak since the first of the year and when last week's break came they were already back at what Dow theorists call "resistance levels" (146 for Dow-Jones industrial averages, 28.8 for railroads) set by the previous reaction in November and December. Both industrial and railroad averages plummeted through these levels on heavy trading volume...
Several men have been working out with Stahl all year. The first official call for all positions will not be until a meeting Tuesday night, and the first practice next Monday...