Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Along the dirty waters of the Harlem river, and sometimes out into the vaster but not much cleaner Hudson, the crews of Columbia University have been rowing this week in a drive to beat Harvard and Tech on the Charles today...
...United Mine Workers organizer testified at a Senate investigation last week that he had overheard this conversation in a hotel two years ago, during a U. M. W. drive to organize Harlan County's miners. That drive failed, as union attempts to get a foothold in "Bloody Harlan" have always failed. But last week there was a new tide in Harlan history, and the feudal sway of Capital over one of the world's richest bituminous coal fields seemed about to end. U. M. W. had put 20 organizers in the field on the heels of the Supreme...
Deficit. The punch behind the President's economy drive was his revealing an estimated deficit of $2,557,000,000 for the fiscal year ending two months hence ($309,000,000 bigger than anticipated) of a $418,000,000 deficit for fiscal 1938 when the Budget was supposed to balance. Primary cause of these deficits is the failure of actual revenue to come up to the expectations of last January. This meant that instead of the public debt reaching a peak of $35,026,000,000 on July 1 and then receding, it would kee on going...
...found support as well 'as opposition to his plan. Outside the reaction was cooler. It was about this time that a movement got underway, led by General Motors and a few of the steel independents, to form a "united front" of big industry against the C. I. O. drive. Attending one of the "united front" meetings and being told that the time had come for a labor-capital showdown, Mr. Taylor arose to announce that he would have nothing to do with the scheme. And his feeling was so strong that the United Front soon fell apart...
Last October a drive for state-wide membership was started, and Walsh was placed in general charge of this work. Funds from the national treasury were sent to aid the local organization in this work...