Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marriages registered in heaven, or just at the town hall? If a marriage is not a holy sacrament, as well as a civil contract, says the Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop...
...lamenting the fact that Britain has drifted so far from "the Christian conception of marriage," the Archbishop pointed out the mounting pile of divorce pleas on Britain's dockets.* Said he: "Marriage is no longer regarded . . . either as a sacrament or as a holy estate, but as a contract which can be broken fairly easily by mutual consent. The old idea of marriage is gone, and with it divorce is condoned...
Other firms found that they too could increase wages without raising prices: ¶ Thirty-three cleaning-&-dyeing plants in Los Angeles signed a contract with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, C.I.O., granting 1,500 employes a 35% increase over the 1942 basic wage, reducing the work week from 44 to 40 hours. Net result: a 17% increase in take-home...
...York's crusading daily, granted a 25% increase over prevailing contract rates...
...troubles with 33 of A.F. of L.'s Metal Workers' Unions were twelve months old. They were complicated by jurisdictional trouble with C.I.O.'s Marine and Shipbuilding Workers' Union. Only a few hours before his shattering announcement, Andy Higgins had said he would sign a contract with whichever union won an NLRB election. (Insiders said C.I.O. would have won.) What had kept Andy from signing earlier with A.F. of L. was a clause providing that all returning servicemen must join the union...