Word: filed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robertson, the wrinkled little chief of the firemen, there has been a long rivalry; they were trying to outdo each other as tough labor leaders. A. J. Glover, the big-boned boss of the switchmen, was newly elected; he also was trying to make a show with his rank & file. But all three leaders were chiefly resentful because railway wages had not kept pace with other industrial wages. Railway workers are no longer at the top of the labor heap. For oldtimers like Johnston and Robertson, this was something to holler about...
...wanted to file from Kavalla, but the telegraph official had never seen a cable in English before and his apparatus seemed to date from pre-Edison days. I tried to get back to Salonika by rail, but the train blew up before I got in. I tried to go by bus, but the busses were not running because one of them had smashed up on a mine the day before. The airplane was the only solution, but, although we went to the airfield daily, the plane did not come in until Thursday...
...cashing in on its victory. Two days later it ordered 37 brickmakers to stop using the multiple basing point system, and broadcast a warning to all users-steel, farm machinery, chemicals, etc.-to cut it out. FTC said that it would proceed with suits and complaints now on file against such industries as steel, metal lath and conduits...
Within the next few weeks, Congress will consider and vote on HR 5852, the Communist-front Registration Act, better known as the Mundt Bill. This bill would require all Communist and "Communist-front" organizations to file annual statements with the Attorney General, listing their memberships, sources of income, expenditures, and capital, and providing a maximum penalty of $5000 or five year's imprisonment for failure to register...
...organization which is once branded "Communist front" according to the Mundt Bill, would obviously have to choose between going out of business and going underground. Its members, whose names would be on file for public inspection at the Department of Justice, would be barred from receiving passports or government jobs, and all its business envelopes and periodicals would have to be stamped with the words "Dessimated by . . . ., a Communist-front organization." The inference is clear and the results are obvious. William Z. Foster, the Communist national chairman, has already announced that his party members will go underground rather than register...