Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union who staged the "unauthorized" maritime strike in Atlantic and Gulf ports last autumn (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.) finally made a clean break with their old leaders, set up a new National Maritime Union claiming 28,000 members. Announced were plans to join C. I. O., to demand National Labor Relations Board elections to decide whether the old union or the new should have exclusive bargaining rights...
Obviously there is nothing in this article that could annoy readers of the "Nation" since it is written as their editors demand all articles for publication in that biased, one-sided journal to be written. Filled as it is with innuendoes slurs, attacks on Overseers and the like, Mr. Lamb's little excursion into fancy is such as will delight those who are averse to looking into a simple administrative problem, simply and honestly...
...proprietor. She studied piano; her brother Mike (Marco) fiddle. Together they entertained at lodge parties and picnics, graduated to a dinner show in Tait's famed San Francisco restaurant. Fanchon & Marco embellished their act with other specialties, began to play theatre dates in their spare time. When the demand grew they organized a second company, coalesced their troupe in a musical show Sunkist which they took to Broadway. Two weeks later the Southern Pacific Railroad accepted Marco's note for $2,800 to transport the company back to San Francisco. The note was paid out of profits from...
...sugar countries simply increased theirs. The Cuban-sponsored Chadbourne restriction plan, which Manhattan Lawyer Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne sold to world producers in Brussels in 1931 behind a smokescreen of U. S. press-agentry, failed from the beginning because quotas agreed upon were too high in face of declining world demand. Typical was the quota asked by Java during the Chadbourne negotiations: 3,300,000 tons per year. Admonished that their country had never produced that much sugar, the Javanese replied: "No, but we will some day." They accepted 2,300,000 tons...
...while I recognize many opportunities to improve social and economic conditions through Federal action, I am convinced that the success of our whole program and the permanent security of our people demand that we adjust all expenditures within the limits of my Budget estimate." All last week Congressmen pondered these words, the first they had heard in such a vein from Franklin Roosevelt in nearly four years. Most were pleased that the President's good intentions towards the Budget corresponded with their own-pleased and a little uneasy as they wondered just how much action such good intentions required...