Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guild shop" and "preferential hiring of Guildsmen" clauses. Meanwhile, in Duluth, the Ridder Bros, papers (Herald and News-Tribune) completed their first week of suspension, with printers refusing to go through a Guild picket line. The Guildsmen. 93 in all, struck when the publishers turned down a 24-hour demand to accept a Guild-shop clause...
...present there is a committee of representatives from the universities and ball clubs investigating the problem of sponsored college ball-players with a report forthcoming next year. With demand for new talent at such a high premium, the big leagues are all indulging in this practice with the philosophy, ably expressed by Collins, "If we don't get him, 101 others will be after...
...sincerity and eagerness in their movements. In a twinkling, they patter up the steps and are embraced by the great carved doors which close behind them so quickly that it is impossible to view them in detail. But they will emerge again, board an orange streetcar again, demand transfers again, and rattle off again southward or eastward...
...European war would have begun!" Neville Chamberlain insisted that his policy has "met with approval, not only in this country but abroad, with the possible exception of Russia." He refused to call a General Election for "no Government with an ample majority ever went to the country at the demand of such feeble opposition." The House finally supported Chamberlain...
...depression in Kansas City and St. Louis counterbalanced country buying. In Texas and lower Arizona and New Mexico, the stability provided by bumper 9? cotton crops is notably enhanced by the oil business, about the only U. S. industry still going at close to full blast (because of war demand and the fact that people have yet to stop driving their cars). In that region trade in January was off a mere .1%. Last week salesmen were calling Dun & Bradstreet to report: "In Texas they don't know a depression exists...