Word: employment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Confused, disputed, the Russian defeat before Warsaw had one plain effect on Russian intellectual life. Ranked as one of the decisive battles of the world, it changed Comintern policy, stopped plans to employ the Red Army to work with the European proletariat, forced Lenin to give up immediate hopes of world revolution, directed Comintern agitation to China and the Far East. Russians decided that they had underestimated Polish national aspirations, and nationalist ambitions everywhere; when Trotsky fell, the defeat was blamed on him, when Tukachevsky was purged, he was called responsible; latest official history of the Communist Party, the Mein...
...Smith & Son. W. H. Smith & Son are not only news agents, but also booksellers, stationers, bookbinders, advertising agents, printers, librarians (with 690 lending libraries) and operators of 1,422 railway and subway bookstalls, 357 shops in London and the provinces. They employ 4,000 bicycling newsboys, operate a fleet of 400 big red trucks. Head of this vast near-monopoly is the black-mustached, punctiliously correct Viscount Hambleden, grandson of an office boy who was adopted by the first Smith's son. The present Lord Hambleden is religious, pacifistic, nervous. Last month three raffish young British pilots drew indefinite...
...part of this sorry fiscal plight Fair officials blame labor. They made a deal with A. F. of L.'s New York Building & Construction Trades Council to employ only union labor. The contract called for no work stoppage because of jurisdictional disputes between local unions. But work did stop while unions haggled over which should pull what cable, etc. Construction was slowed up and in the closing rush to complete the Fair on schedule, overtime charges ate into the budget. World's Fair officials maintain labor disputes raised Fair costs about $2,000,000, cost exhibitors and concessionaires...
...overtime payments to labor cost them $5,000,000 they hadn't figured on (the Fair's figure: $1,000,000); 4) trucking charges have been exorbitant; 5) Grover Whalen and Washington have ignored their protests (they were warned in advance that they would have to employ U. S. labor, that it would be expensive...
Judge Dewhirst revealed that the House of David, never very large, had dwindled somewhat in recent years. It has 171 members, who pool their possessions, employ some 70 other people on occasion. Like many another eccentric sect, it has a rival, and in its native Benton Harbor, Mich.-the House of David "As Reorganized by Mary Purnell," widow of its founder "King Benjamin." Mary Purnell specializes in tourist cabins, tourist-trade souvenirs. Judge Dewhirst runs the four famed House of David baseball teams, spry outfits all, a fruit-packing plant, his own tourist cabins and a cocktail room...