Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back in Washington his Committee for Industrial Organization adopted a one sentence resolution. It said simply: "The Executive Officers of the Committee for Industrial Organization are authorized to issue certificates of affiliation to national, international, state, regional, city central bodies and local groups whenever it is deemed such action is advisable." By that simple authorization the C.I.O. formally set itself up as a rival federation of labor to the American Federation of Labor. Last year when A. F. of L. leaders suspended C.I.O. unions, they charged that C.I.O. was an attempt to set up a "dual organization," a charge that...
...Service. American Airlines has applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission to establish flights from Detroit to Cincinnati and from Detroit to Indianapolis. Pennsylvania-Central has asked permission to inaugurate service between Pittsburgh and Buffalo. Transcontinental & Western Air wants to buy Braniff to get a north-south service to cross its transcontinental route, and Eastern Air covets Braniff's line between Houston and Brownsville, Tex., in order to tie up with Pan American's route in Mexico. Last week the chances of fulfilling most of these ambitions without overhauling the Air Mail Act of 1934 were reduced to zero...
...exceedingly inefficient retail distribution ... 2) class loyalty to their own institutions given by repressed industrial workers, who in Europe are not as migratory and mobile a class as in the U. S.; 3) a deeply ingrained thrift or savings motive . . . and 4) in recent years, strongly financed central co-operative wholesales able to promote new local societies or assist struggling ones. These factors are absent or relatively absent in the U. S. today...
...little confused over its general aim and import, at the same time delights through the rich variety of its mingled intellectual, poetic, and dramatic offerings. The theme is that of a proud man. Thomas a Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury, seeking and winning martyrdom. But interlarded with this central stuff are a chorus of sombre monks and another of wailing women who at one point rival 'the witches of "Macbeth' in their catalogue of the disgusting; paeans of religious fervor including an intellectual indictment of atheism; and, most daringly ingenious of all, an apology spoken by the murderers in the present...
...member of his Freshman team, Hutter, who prepared for Harvard at Central High School, won numerals, and won a major 'H' in minor colors on the 1935-36 and 1936-37 Varsity teams. The new captain holds the University and Pool records in the 220 yard free style, the 100 yard free style, and the 50 yard free style...