Word: employs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatly grieves the young school of muralists who have found their inspiration in Rivera and Orozco, their opportunity under WPA. Lately, however, a few architects and a few painters have had a happy, conciliatory thought. If modern architecture relies on the beauty of abstract forms, why should it not employ, for certain chaste effects, the painting of pure abstractionists...
Last year 63 employes of Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. seized that concern's plants at North Chicago, Ill. Against police assaults and court commands to vacate, they held fast until Fansteel's lawyer devised a portable _ wooden tower, enabled officers to douse the sit-downers with nauseating gas. Last September, the National Labor Relations Board declined to concede that subsequent conviction of 37 strikers and two C. I. O. leaders on contempt of court charges in any way affected workers' rights under the Wagner Act. By directing Fansteel to re-employ the strikers, recognize their union, the board...
...Germans.' In Austria, by the Schroeder arguement, antagonism to Rome is deeply rooted. A "Los von Rom" ("Free from Rome") movement arose there 40-odd years ago. The Old Catholic Church, result of a schism in 1870 over papal infallibility, counts 400,000 European adherents. The Old Catholics employ the vernacular in the Mass, do not require celibacy of the clergy. Such a church, headed by Cardinal Innitzer, could win Hitler's blessing "by simply paying the price of separation from Rome...
...Japan's "conquered territory" and the base of operations for the Japanese thrust at China's "Hindenburg Line" along the Lunghai Railway in southern Shantung. Garrisoned only by a small Japanese force because all available troops have been sent to the front, the Japanese were forced to employ two Chinese battalions, who surrendered when the city was occupied, as Tsinan's military police. Last week hundreds of Chinese soldiers, disguised as coolies or even dressed as market girls, filtered into Tsinan, with arms concealed beneath their clothing. There were whispered conferences with the Chinese battalion leaders...
...which maintains an active religious department, the federation, under the presidency of devout James G. K. McClure Jr., has been well pleased with results of the Lord's Acre Plan, has furnished information concerning it to churchmen in 40 States. Some 325 North Carolina churches, of eleven denominations, employ it. The largest, a Baptist church in Hendersonville, received $2,352 last year from 40-odd acres planted to corn, sweet potatoes, cabbages, etc. Rev. B. M. Strickland (Baptist) reported that since his people have taken up the Lord's Acre Plan he has performed more baptisms. Said...