Word: ende
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Growled William Green: "The leader of the C. I. 0. has again blocked labor peace. . . . The real reason is that . . . peace would automatically end his autocratic control...
...Coal, where John Lewis last month pretty well stymied A. F. of L. for the next two years by winning a contract which binds most of the industry to employ only members of his United Mine Workers. But that did not end one of the fiercest wars in U. S. Labor: A. F. of L.'s small but growing Progressive Miners of America is still trying to proselytize Lewis men in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Alabama and elsewhere, lay the groundwork for demanding agreements in 1941. Meanwhile, the Lewis union, greatly strengthened by its victory, is chipping away at Progressive...
...Chinese junks, which ply up & down the river bringing vegetables and fruit to the Concessions, feared to come near. Two Chinese vegetable vendors who did were shot. The Concession still had large stores of flour and rice, but perishables were almost gone. Milk had disappeared by week's end; the ice supply was low, and it was 100° in the shade. Even in the French Concession, where vegetables were still obtainable, prices tripled...
...Paris, the French Government, although anxious to treat the matter as purely a local incident, was willing to go along with the British on whatever measures were agreed upon. But at week's end the British, involved up to their necks in building up a "Peace Front" to resist Adolf Hitler's aggressions in Europe, took no measures at all. The British felt that they could not fight the Japanese economically without U. S. aid, and last week the U. S. State Department kept noticeably quiet...
...Believing that the primary end of a liberal college is the education of its students, and that the core of a good education is a competent and experienced staff of teachers, the Harvard Chapter of P. B. K. questions strongly whether the recent termination of the appointments of ten assistant professors can be reconciled with that end...