Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maritime labor regards the former chairman of the U. S. Maritime Commission as a union-wrecker was made clear by the New York Maritime Council on the eve of Mr. Kennedy's departure : Mr. Kennedy's insistence on mediation & arbitration of maritime labor disputes is a curtailment of the union's right to strike. Arbitration of minor controversies arising out of signed contracts and prohibition of strikes & lockouts (during the duration of the contracts) is now accepted in all N. M. U. agreements. But in settling basic issues like wages, hours and working conditions, the union wants...
...Only clear fact was that John Billy had been drilled by a shotgun at close range and buried in the Everglades 20 miles west of Miami. Shrugging Seminoles there said that he was an evildoer sent to be buried among strangers. In John Billy's home village, investigators finally learned that he had been shot on Musa Isle outside of Miami, that the killer was none other than John Osceola himself...
...analysis of criticisms levelled at the University Pension plan and the explanation given by its authors makes clear both the good intentions of the University and the inadequacy of its pension system. Despite the fact that the administration contributes 126% as much as the employees, a maid who pays premiums for twenty years may at the end of that time receive only four dollars a month. Such a small return is merely a caricature of the security which a pension system is supposed to provide. It returns to the recipient just enough money to supply carfare to the relief bureau...
...local scene called it a deliberate attempt "to plough under human brains." One or two of our contemporaries in Middle Western colleges thought it was a proposal to slay the first-born in every family. This was not just what the President meant, but he should have made himself clear...
...felt, instead, your features helped make clear...