Word: dillon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game was held up in the eighth inning, when some of the local opportunists who frequent Soldiers Field ran off with the available supply of balls. Hostilities were resumed after a hurried trip to the supply room of Dillon...
While declining gate receipts justify many slashes in the H.A.A. budget, there can be no excuse for negligent medical service at the Dillon Field House. Not until the day when sports are abolished at Harvard, can one cent be subtracted from the medical appropriation of the most stubborn budget if this should endanger the health of any student. Granted, it is enticing to hack here but the difficulties of coaching and travelling cuts are not accompanied by the threat of life and death...
...more alarming to motormen last week than Organizer Dillon's talk were actual preparations for a strike in Akron, Ohio's tire & rubber plants of Goodyear, Goodrich and Firestone. Flatly rejected by managers had been demands for abolition of company unions, recognition of A. F. of L.'s United Rubber Workers union. Late in the week the National Labor Relations Board hopefully stepped in, demanded that Firestone cease violating NRA's Section 73. The Board accused the company of refusing to allow its employes to elect their own representatives for collective bargaining, of favoring and financing...
...Congress pass the Wagner Bill, barked Francis J. Dillon, American Federation of Labor organizer in Detroit, to the House Labor Committee last week, or the nation's automobile workers will walk out. The Committee was not impressed. As the results of employes' elections held by the Automobile Labor Board showed, the A. F. of L.. can command only a minor fraction of automobile workers (TIME, Feb. 25). Realistic Laborites know that at most they can call out some makers of parts, perhaps thus cripple production lines...
After several years of agitation, the H.A.A. has hung a net on the top floor of Dillon Field House to be used for indoor golf practice during the remainder of this winter. Coach Clark Hodder has issued a call for candidates to report today. No participation card is necessary...