Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coal, where John Lewis last month pretty well stymied A. F. of L. for the next two years by winning a contract which binds most of the industry to employ only members of his United Mine Workers. But that did not end one of the fiercest wars in U. S. Labor: A. F. of L.'s small but growing Progressive Miners of America is still trying to proselytize Lewis men in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Alabama and elsewhere, lay the groundwork for demanding agreements in 1941. Meanwhile, the Lewis union, greatly strengthened by its victory, is chipping away at Progressive...
...whether one or the other has exclusive representation, the corporation will continue to deal with local union committees. Meantime, pending decision of the rival claims by the courts or the National Labor Relations Board, G. M. will not talk amendment (or, in effect, renewal) of its national contract with either union. G. M. was showing its muscle...
According to President Conant's statement to me, it is his policy, in offering certain appointments without limit of time under which the appointee would contract to give a particular specified course, to stipulate that the appointee assent to a qualifying clause of the following nature: "If at any time you should decide that you are no longer willing to give such course, or if in the opinion of a competent group of men you are giving such course unsatisfactorily, you would then agree to resign your position and would terminate your connection with the University." President Conant made...
Last spring Billie Holiday went to the Manhattan studios of the Vocalion Company, which has her under exclusive contract, to make a batch of records. One number, which she had been singing at a new downtown hotspot called Café Society, she particularly wanted on wax. Called Strange Fruit, it had been written by a libertarian New York public school teacher named Lewis Allan and its lyric was a poetic description of a lynching's terrible finale. Billie liked its dirgelike blues melody, was not so much interested in the song's social content. But Vocalion...
...August 1938 (after reputedly picking up $625,000 for himself and associates in a merger of Pennsylvania Airlines & Transport Co. and Central Airlines Inc.), Janas & Associates acquired control of Canadian Colonial, made Janas president. With U. S. Foreign Air Mail Contract No. i Sigmund Janas put the operating methods of successful American Airlines (TIME, May 22) to work. His DC-2's were flown by American's pilots, overhauled by American's mechanics, dispatched by American's radio operators...