Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever was in Old John's mind, he played his game with his usual matchless skill. From the Government viewpoint, the contract which Interior Secretary "Cap" Krug had signed with Lewis last spring, after a 59-day strike, seemed foolproof. The Stars & Stripes flew over the 3,300 soft coal mines manned by U.M.W. miners. They could not strike against the Government. There was a law against it -the Smith-Connally...
...waiters also find that in most wage matters the University discriminates against them in favor of the high school students with whom they work. Specifically, the high school students receive the regular hourly rate and free meals: Harvard men are paid slightly better wages--or were before the new contract was signed--but each week are billed $11.50 for board...
...contract makes no mention of these students. Could not some provision be made for them? David B. Evans...
...this argument for increased allotments slips too easily over the question of whether the benefits of the GI bill were intended to be a bonus or a contract. Morally, the nation owes the veterans nothing. The men who served their country were protecting themselves, their families, their homes, and their future from a detestable fate which threatened every individual soldier. The whole nation fought the war, and those who were best suited for combat were sent into uniform. The representatives of a grateful nation granted certain benefits to veterans, not as a dutiful remuneration, but simply as a gesture...
...Guild (C.I.O.) was playing no favorites. Guild pickets last week methodically patrolled J. David Stern's pro-labor Philadelphia Record and Camden (N.J.) Courier-Post. Back in 1934, when the Guild didn't even have coffee money, Dave Stern was the first publisher to sign a Guild contract...