Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Board has ordered plantwide elections, which, in effect, deprive the craft unionists of their right to select their own bargaining representatives. And A. F. of L. would like to see the Wagner Act amended to read like the Railway Labor Act, which provides for bargaining by craft or class of employes...
...Wilson Brown distinguished himself from 1926 to 1929 as naval aide to Calvin Coolidge and commanding officer of the Presidential yacht Mayflower, again from 1934 to 1936 as naval aide to Franklin Roosevelt. His career began in 1902 when he graduated from Annapolis as the youngest member of his class. He went back to teach at the Academy in 1907, commanded the U. S. S. Parker during the World War, later headed the U.. S. submarine base at New London, Conn...
...British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's fashionable young men had invented a quip which was soon being drawled in the salons of Mayfair: "It seems the American President has delivered a new Sermon on the Mount-Mount Blank." Much too God-fearing to join in such British ruling class levity, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at once took action to fill in what His Majesty's Government regarded as the most vital part of the Chicago speech- its blanks. The British Embassy in Washington was instructed to ask exactly what the President wants to do, what he means...
...visiting U. S. Legionnaires were cavorting in Paris with much the same uproarious levity they loosed recently in New York. Since the French Government was paying their expenses, the fact that few of the hotels at which Legionnaires were at first lodged could claim to be even Fourth Class led to heroic eruptions of wrath. Typical ex-dough-boys and their good wives complained that 20 years after 1917 they were being asked to sleep in hotels some of whose other occupants were obviously daughters of joy. The Government blamed everything on a Paris travel agency which was said...
...Most important new project of Joseph Stalin, who already has the world's largest army (1,300,000 men who serve without pay but get their board and keep), is to have Soviet workers put together in Russia a first-class Red Navy out of parts made abroad. This incipient "Assembled Navy," the first in world history, is now in the hush-hush stage, but last week the U. S. State Department announced that the U. S. S. R. has suddenly become the largest customer for U. S. war materials, and that last month the first shipment of disassembled...