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...labor organizers by giving them no pat decision to reject or accept. The Board, however, did begin a careful survey of the union status (company or A. F. of L.) of thousands of automobile workers to determine accurately the question of representational apportionment in individual motor plants. In disgust, Fisher Body employes in St. Louis chucked their A. F. of L. charter, decided to "go it alone." And some observers sensed in the Labor Board's refusal to be stampeded by A. F. of L. pressure a perceptible cooling of the Administration toward the organization, too. In Camden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Strikes | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

...disgust, the senior members yelled on masse to the three in the bow to put up their oars and let those in the know run the boat. Only in this way was disaster prevented and the boat-house reached...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: So the Story Goes . . . | 4/21/1934 | See Source »

...disgust of Mark Edward Ridge's host in TIME, March 19, must be shared by all who . . . handle daily the product discussed there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 2, 1934 | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

...Come in at the Door" might very easily build a reputation as a writer of clever novels on morbid themes for the delectation of the sophisticated, as Black Mask horror stories are for the unsophisticated. He might also do far more; he might go beyond negation, beyond futilitarianism, beyond disgust with life as it is, to discover, and use as a horizon, life as it might be. "Come in at the Door" is a novel well worth reading--even reading twice. If March can lift himself from the slough of despond and find direction, his next novel will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 3/20/1934 | See Source »

...allegiances, Bystander Nock is in the comfortable position of running no danger that his superior wisdom in economics, politics et al. will be put to a test in practice. Not given to the loud laugh, he has spent much of his time recording in his journal his amusement and disgust at his fellow-countrymen's behavior. Unfriendly to authority, he has a rooted conviction that the leaders of U. S. democracy are almost invariably charlatans or rascals. He once voted for Jefferson Davis in a Presidential election, on the principle that a first-rate dead man is better than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Impolite Commentator | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

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