Word: centralizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vegetables of the fertile San Joaquin Valley. Fortnight ago the Agricultural Workers Union called a strike in four of Stockton's largest canneries, demanding better pay, shorter hours. The Agricultural Workers Union belongs to the A.F. of L. but the strike was ordered by Stockton's Central Labor Council which is controlled by the I.L.A. On the Pacific Coast, however, Joseph P. Ryan has no control over I.L.A. Its leadership there belongs to Harry Bridges who is an ally of the C.I.O. Thus the Stockton strike was an attempt of Radical Harry Bridges to extend his labor leadership...
...ordinary 40-ft. stages; a small army of extras, the St. Luke's Choir and six technical advisers. In this scene Tom Canty, already prayed over, sworn and anointed, is about to get the crown when Prince Edward comes scampering up Westminster Abbey's central aisle to present his claims. When Tom Canty corroborates them, the Archbishop of Canterbury agrees to crown Edward if he can tell the whereabouts of the Great Seal of England. Edward does so with some difficulty. When next seen he is on the throne distributing rewards to those who deserve them, passing laws...
...powers, protested against confining a government to the exercise of express powers, saying that "there must necessarily be admitted powers by implication." But while the framers wrote a constitution with implied as well as enumerated powers, judicial interpretation has tended to stretch, however slowly, the powers of the central government. Nevertheless, there are many who favor a "clarifying amendment" rather than extending to the limit the burden of borderline interpretation to which the Court is heir...
Besides unifying the intra-mural system this central committee also manages the annual cane spree and some off-season varsity sports such as spring soccer and fall crew...
...fact that the Houses are so much bigger should enable them eventually, when the new plans for central organization mature, to carry on intra-mural athletics more successfully, as is already the case in crew and tackle football. Princeton's rink gives them the edge in hockey, and the popularity which this has received as an intra-mural sport should be an added argument for a Harvard rink...