Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First result of their parleys was announced by Homer Martin. He was preparing a blanket union contract for some 2,000 plants which make parts for Ford, General Motors, Chrysler, et al.; parts makers who are, of course, dependent upon their big customers for economic life. A standard contract would fix the minimum hourly wage at 65? for some 250,000 supply plant workers...
...pressure groups, Washington during the past month was the scene of a unique Battle of the Pressagents. Sitting in judgment was an emergency Fact-Finding Board of three appointed by Franklin Roosevelt to decide whether railroad managements were justified in imposing a general 15% wage cut (TIME, April 25, et...
From Paris came Ambassador Sir Eric Phipps to report on significant developments in France. Ever since France embarked upon a "New Deal" policy under Leon Blum (TIME, June 15, 1936 et seq.), the Conservative British Cabinet have assisted French moderates like Premier Edouard Daladier in their efforts to bring France back from the Left to the Centre...
...Comtesse de Paris did not appear, but suddenly a door sprang open and the aide de camp of "Prince Henri, Comte de Paris et Dauphin de France" announced, with the traditional French royal reverence, " Monseigneur...
...Highland Cream" whiskey. Immediately above this basks a nearly naked beauty in a bathing suit, and across from her is a photograph of a swim-suited bridge game on the Riviera which appeared in one of the picture magazines last summer. A shield with the Latin motto, "Sudor et Lacrimae," translated "sweat and tears" is in another corner, while a diapered baby slumbers in the middle...