Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baldwin insisted that the CIO "has no aspirations beyond the goals of collective bargaining and the protection of labor's rights. It supports no political principles except to make the capitalist system function more fairly...
...part of this line, no foreign loans are to be accepted. Conceived as a strategic railway, to enable the Iranians to repulse possible British invasion from the Persian Gulf, Russian invasion from the Turkomen Soviet Socialist Republic, the railroad line carefully avoids all Iran's big cities except Teheran, skirts round the Empire's more fertile districts, spans wide rivers, crosses mountain passes as high as 7,200 feet, bores into numerous tunnels, connects with no foreign lines. Foreign engineers, not interested in strategy, chuckled that the railway goes from "nowhere to nowhere." This spring Scandinavian engineers were...
...have been forced to sign Guild contracts or to post pledges of minimum wages & hours. To make these gains, the Guild has had to organize 15,000 editorial and business office workers, finance 17 strikes. Present effort of the C. I. O. Guild is twofold: 1) unionization of all except A. F. of L. mechanical department workers, and 2) universal acceptance of the Guild shop, a condition it has been able to impose in only 20 of its 74 signed contracts...
...world championship in October. But Bill Stewart's achievement was in some ways even more remarkable, because: 1) he had led his team to a world championship in his first year as a hockey manager; 2) although a longtime hockey referee, he had never played the game except on Boston frog ponds, had never coached except at polite New England schools (including Radcliffe...
...computed normal level in March. . . . There has been only one year in all our history when production averaged more than 40% below normal and that was 1932, at the bottom of the depression. It now seems probable that 1938 will be the most severe depression year in our history except...