Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Mr. Willkie's Central Illinois Light bought tear-gas guns and shells; that no fewer than three of the Willkie companies were clients of the biggest espionage agency devoted solely to industrial work. Mr. Flynn also charged that Consumers Power Co. and Alabama Power Co., both Commonwealth & Southern subsidiaries, were found guilty by NLRB "of interfering with the rights of their employes," that Consumers Power, after signing a contract with C. I. O., launched a "determined antiC. I. O. offensive" which "continued unrelentingly right up to the day the Republicans picked Mr. Willkie, when, by coincidence, the management...
...people who worked for him when he was president of Commonwealth & Southern make Wendell Lewis Willkie the biggest employer of labor ever to run for the U. S. presidency. Certain it was that before the 1940 campaign grew very old Employer Willkie's labor record would be thrown up for grabs. Up it went last week...
...sign a contract with C. I. O., and whose companies had some 30 contracts with C. I. O. and A. F. of L., did not ignore this challenge. Mr. Flynn's "labor spies," said he, were hired for only one job: to inspect collections on Commonwealth & Southern streetcars when they changed from two-man to one-man operation, see that all the nickels went into the cash...
...sell his once prosperous Chattanooga News to Grocer Roy McDonald, publisher of the Chattanooga Free Press, he made himself a martyr to New Dealers. Because Milton had fought Tennessee Electric Power Co. with all his might, and T. E. P. (subsidiary of Wendell Willkie's Commonwealth & Southern) had fought back, leftist journals like The Nation and The New Republic printed tearful articles implying that T. E. P. was largely responsible for driving Milton's News to the wall...
...apparent that Quezon had begun to dance still more exotic steps. Imperious boss of the Islands but still subject to their U. S.-made laws, Quezon has proposed an amendment to the Tydings-McDuffie Act which would permit him to run for a second term as President of the Commonwealth, then let a chosen subordinate hold the office until he can run again in 1945 and become the first President of the new sovereign State. The Filipinos approved the amendment in a plebiscite. Mr. Roosevelt's signature is all that is necessary to make it law - and wily Quezon...