Word: far
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prospects for labor peace are nevertheless far from bright...
...negotiations broke down because A. F. of L. officials insisted that C. I. O. unions return with the same status they had held before the split. But when A. F. of L. agreed in effect to accept them as they now are, the last big obstacle to peace, so far as I.L.G.W.U. was concerned, disappeared...
Then the union blundered onto a tender corporate toe. A nominally separate union of C.I.O. foremen demanded recognition by Chrysler. "A new attempt to control production," cried Mr. Keller. Roland Thomas hastily announced that the demand had been withdrawn. Far from satisfied, Chrysler's Weckler demanded a guarantee (presumably from John Lewis) that no such demand by any C.I.O. union should again be made during the life of the new contract. "Just so long as the corporation continues to drag extraneous issues into the situation," replied Mr. Thomas with a straight face, "so long will the corporation have...
...whoop and holler was gone. Banking in Buenos Aires, war service with the British and U. S. Armies (he served with the British in Mesopotamia, commanded an artillery battery in the U. S. Army), shipping after the War, exploration in China, hunting in India, books about the Far East-Son Kermit could follow the pattern of Father's life but he could not quite get its spirit. Last week it became plain that Kermit Roosevelt, plump and 50, had followed Father's fading footsteps out of the U. S. He had signed up as an officer...
...nominated Utility Tycoon Wendell Willkie as a good 1940 G. O. P. possibility. Said Mr." Willkie wryly: "If the Government continues to take over my business, I may be looking for some kind of a new job. General Johnson's is the best offer I have had so far...