Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week they became effective. Lawyers agreed with Attorney General Cummings when he described them as "the most striking advance in the administration of justice in half a century." The new rules reminded card-playing legalists of the changes that came over bridge when it went from auction into contract...
...lesser Pacific port. Despite stiffened employer resistance and a labor position weakened by inter-union feuds, longshoremen were not quite willing to grant the outright guarantee against outlaw "quickies" which President Almon Roth of the Pacific Coast Waterfront Employers Association originally demanded. Instead the Bridges union agreed to punish contract violators by suspension or expulsion, to put disputed cases up to five permanent arbitrators, in no event to stop work while the new peace machinery functions. If, as Almon Roth publicly hopes, seagoing unions give similar assurance, the West Coast may be in for an era of unaccustomed labor tranquillity...
...young unknown, James B. Carey, astounded organized labor and shocked the radio industry five years ago by wangling a contract for his local union with Philadelphia Storage Battery Co. (Philco). Last week up-&-coming Mr. Carey, having soared to high place in C. I. O. as president of its United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers, had to take a setback in the plant where he got his start...
After a four-month shutdown and quarrel over new contract terms, Philco re-opened part of its vast Philadelphia factory. Back to work went 500 of the 13,000 who worked there at Philco's peak. They had lost their union shop for a weaker hiring clause giving preference to union workers; their wages were cut 9? an hour for men, 7? for women; their hours were up from 36 to 40 per week...
Grand Tour. They have, in fact, made the grand tour of Hollywood-Warner Bros., Paramount, United Artists, MGM. This assortment of alliances comes from their disliking to sign for more than a one-picture contract. Of their six pictures they, like the public, vote Love Me Tonight, with Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier, the best. There pours out of them an old familiar tale-of a Hollywood cockeyed, imbecile, exciting, exasperating. The medium: marvelous. The methods: terrible. "Music," they insist, "must be written for the camera. People can't just stand around and sing songs." For Rodgers, the usual...