Word: facings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stabilizing their wages & hours to the satisfaction of many an operator who had wearied of wage & price cutting. Whether in doing so they fatally hampered coal in its losing competition with such other fuels as gas and oil, is an economic question which John Lewis does not like to face. What he does believe is that his miners are so indispensable to C. I. O. that a reverse for them would be a reverse for the entire labor cause...
Those who knew that Commissar Litvinoff actually does take rest cures at Continental watering places for heart trouble might have accepted the Soviet "request" theory at its face value had it been made at any other time. But only 36 hours later Foreign Minister Josef Beck of Poland was to make an important reply to Adolf Hitler before the Polish Parliament (see p. 21). The British and French press were beginning to talk about "appeasing" the Germans again (see p. 21), at a time when the "Peace Front" was considering involved negotiations with the Soviet Union with a view...
...brilliant diplomatic technician. But in the world's eyes he was identified with that era of Soviet policy when the U. S. S. R. backed up strongly every move to curb the aggressors, pushed forward the principles of collective security, allied itself with democracies, put its face squarely against dictatorships. Was that era to end? Last week all Europe guessed. Some of the guesses...
...small incomes. Through the State Charities Aid Association in Manhattan, babies have been given to laundresses, bootblacks and laborers who have steady jobs. A letter from satisfied foster parents (humble Italians who named their boy Tony) received by that agency: "Strong in health, lovely in heart, red in the face, quiet in the life, intelligent, beautiful, it is the boy that God give...
Crimson ace Tom Healey is Floyd Stahl's choice to face the Green. Healey has twirled the home forces to 4 of their 5 loop victories this season, and narrowly lost in last Saturday's affair, as he limited Dartmouth to 7 hits, fanned 3, and passed only...