Word: doned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week 20,000 Alabama miners settled down at home to wait until their employers had done so. In Pennsylvania, many a mine failed to re-open because operators were uncertain of their sick industry's prospects. Same day in Washington, however, strong medicine was brewed when the Senate passed the new Guffey Coal Bill (see p. 16). aimed to end the overproduction and cut-throat competition which have laid Coal low, making last week's Labor gains doubly sure of fulfillment...
...Harry H. Bennett, one of Ford Motor Co.'s top executives, reluctantly confirmed a story which had leaked into the press after a full week of secrecy. As personnel director and chief of Ford's super-efficient plant police, tough Mr. Bennett is the man who has done the nation's most famed job of nipping unionism in the bud. One day last fortnight he was motoring to his office at the Ford Administration Building at Dearborn when he passed a parked car, recognized its five occupants as men who had been trying to see him about...
Handsome Mrs. Harriman, long one of Washington's favorite social warhorses, has done much in her 66 vivid years to merit this promotion. In 1913 Woodrow Wilson named her the only woman member of the Federal Industrial Relations Commission. The following year her husband, Manhattan Banker J. Borden Harriman, died. She settled down to a career in Washington. During the War she became chairman of the Committee on Women in Industry of the Council of National Defense. Then followed twelve long years of Republican regime...
...paying guests: to Otto Kahn during the Pecora investigation, to James A. Moffett while he was Federal Housing Administrator. Not till last summer did politics take a turn which promised to relieve her finances. As an ardent Roosevelt leader at the Philadelphia Convention, she undid the damage she had done herself at Chicago. The resignation of Minister Ruth Bryan Owen (now Mrs. Rohde) as Minister to Denmark also helped to make an opening for a woman in the diplomatic corps...
...grounds by agriculture and drought was the prime cause of duck decrease. And approximately 80% of all ducks shot in the U. S. breed in Canada-chiefly on the prairies of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. In 1935 More Game Birds surveyed the Canadian region, saw what needed to be done. This year it is ready with a well-rounded program to sell to U. S. duck hunters...