Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defining the issue, however, the board first agreed with the company that it was not compelled to reach an agreement, regardless of the circumstances: "If honest and sincere bargaining efforts fail to produce an understanding on the questions at issue, nothing in the act makes illegal the employer's failure to capitulate to the demands placed upon him." But that was not the question: "It is whether a refusal to embody, in a signed agreement, any understandings that may be reached, constitutes a failure to bargain collectively within the meaning of the act. In essence, the question is whether...
Harvard has always been a target for those opponents of static scholarship, who deplore the tendency of our older Universities to bury themselves in a ceaseless effort to cast new light on the art of past ages, and fail to recognize and foster the growth of contemporary art forms within their own walls. It is encouraging, therefore, to watch the growth within the University of two such groups as the Harvard Film Society and the Cinema Guild, concerned with the advancement of one of these forms...
...They [selfish minorities] have the same type of mind as those representatives of the people who vote against legislation to help social and economic conditions, proclaiming loudly that they are for the objectives but do not like the methods, and then fail utterly to offer a better method of their...
Every year when the coaches of the two colleges meet in the spring the baseball game is a highlight of the afternoon's activities, and without fail the Elis bow by the same score, as Coach Fred Mitchell impartially tolls out the decisions...
Almost without fail each Tuesday and Friday since March 8, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt has received reporters in his large oval White House office, his Hyde Park study or his Warm Springs cottage. Seldom does anything exciting come of these meetings, for reporters realize that it is not cricket to harry the President of the U. S. with too-pointed questions, and Franklin Roosevelt knows full well how to shut down on such questions with a frown or a laugh. But because the President's responses may not be quoted directly (without his special permission), the secret minutes...