Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name is also great in Jasper County. John Llewellyn Lewis was born 50 miles southwest of Newton 58 years ago, has in Jasper County much strength and one of the oldest locals of his United Mine Workers. So last year beneficent Maytag, caught in the union wash, signed a contract with C. I. O.'s United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America...
...That contract having expired, and President Maytag having displeased his workers with a 10% wage cut, the company has been deep in labor trouble since May, was in deeper than ever last week. And so were the union and all Newton. After persuading 350 sit-inners to surrender the plant, Iowa's Governor Nelson G. Kraschel proposed that they accept the cut and return to work, was promptly turned down by the union. At that, Newton officialdom and business went into action. Businessmen asked Sheriff Earl Shields to recruit 1,000 deputies, encouraged a back-to-work movement which...
...Viennese banker, married Austrian Munitions Tycoon Fritz Mandl. He made her quit acting and by last summer, after their marriage was dis solved by the French courts, had spent nearly $300,000 trying to take Extase out of circulation. Last fall Hedy popped up on the Normandie under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, on landing stole some of the spotlight from such noted fellow voyagers as Danielle Darrieux, Fernand Gravet, Ambassador Bill Bullitt...
Last time Franklin Delano Roosevelt stuck his oar into the affairs of U. S. commercial aviation he made a superb mess of it. Aroused by Senator Hugo Black's airmail contract investigation, the President precipitately directed cancellation of all airmail contracts (TIME, Feb. 39, 1934, et seq.). The Army was ordered to fly the mail, which it proceeded to do with a loss of twelve lives in eleven weeks. Months later, when the airlines finally got all their mail subsidy back, it was under the supervision of a newly constituted Air Mail Bureau of the Interstate Commerce Commission...
...Executive Secretary Ralph Whitehead. who declared that Mr. North, having lapped the cream from the big cities, used the pay issue as an excuse to get off the road. The A. F. A. also charged that Mr. North was trying to get out from under a fiveyear, closed-shop contract which A. F. A. signed last year with the bankers with whom his ancestral tents were then in pawn. Mr. North retorted that Mr. Whitehead had stubbornly declined to face depression facts. Meantime, shrewd Mr. North was reported preparing a neat finesse. To the Ringling-owned, non-union...