Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rivet the closed shop upon the industry. Into no code so far has gone a closed shop provision and President Roosevelt did not propose to begin with Steel. In renewing the code, however, the President made a solemn promise: "I will undertake promptly to provide, as the occasion may demand, for the election by employes in each industrial unit of representatives of their own choosing for the purpose of collective bargaining and other mutual aid and protection, under the supervision of an appropriate governmental agency...
...wife wanted to bury him in California while some of his Indian relatives wanted him brought back to Oklahoma. Before the funeral Hubert Howard Barnett, 27, claiming to be a nephew, asked to be made administrator of his estate. And Mrs. Lowe said that under California law she would demand a 50% share of the estate...
Roly-poly Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet Foreign Commissar, next climbed the rostrum. In all previous Disarmament sessions, Comrade Litvinoff's tactics have been to demand 100% disarmament at once, to pledge Russia to anything the other powers would agree to, and then to sit back and chuckle hugely as red waves of embarrassment flushed his capitalist friends' cheeks. But things have changed in the past year. The growth of Hitlerism, formal recognition of U. S. S. R. by the U. S. and the possibility that Russia may soon take out a full League membership have left the capitalist world...
...concealed rage of King George (TIME, Dec. 15, 1930), Australia was the first Dominion to demand and get a native governor general hand-picked by the Dominion. The Irish Free State followed when the arrant Republican Donal Buckley was given the job in 1932. Canada may be the next. Last week the Winnipeg Free Press pointed...
Only business service specializing in production-consumption relations is Economics Statistics, Inc., ''featuring supply-demand-price analysis" and not to be confused with the world's biggest figure factory, Standard Statistics Co. Inc. In the last two months, Economics Statistics' index of total stocks, raw & finished, has risen from about 145 to 150, or almost one-third of the favorable decline registered from last July through last March. Steel production is running at least 10% ahead of consumption largely because of strike fears. Inventories of tires have reached the highest point since 1930. In such basic...