Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corp., biggest U. S. Steel subsidiary, before the National-Labor Relations Board on charges of interfering with its employes' right to organize. Most important, C. I. O. was preparing a frontal attack on the automobile industry, whose parts-making supply bases the United Automobile Workers and Federation of Flat Glass Workers continued last week to harry (TIME, Dec. 21 et ante}. To great General Motors Corp., world's biggest automobile manufacturers' Leader Lewis delivered an "ultimatum" demanding U. A. W. recognition and collective bargaining, on threat of strike...
Grey Owl's account makes these kittens sound like something out of a Walt Disney cartoon. One always walked erect, "staggering around like a decrepit old man." Another discovered he could ride on his mother's flat tail, would catch a ride whenever Jelly Roll waddled around the camp. Sometimes three kittens would ride, one passenger standing on the tail with one leg and marking time with the other on the floor, like a child scooting along on a Kiddie-Kar. Jelly Roll would pay no attention whatsoever...
...Robinson, Harrison, Byrns and others came to confer at the house of the President-elect on East 65th Street, Manhattan. Their deliberations were interrupted by a terrible crash on the floor below, the sound of falling furniture, of breaking glass. Several conferees anxiously rushed down, found young John Roosevelt flat on the dining room floor amid several shattered family relics, found Gus grinning, dusting off his clothes, muttering, "Now, darn your little hide, I guess you'll quit prepping with [kidding...
...impossible' that the desire of the King, who does not ask that Mrs. Simpson become queen but only his morganatic wife, should be granted by parliamentary vote or at least submitted to such a vote?'' Fleet Street: This week London presses roar with the flat prediction of Viscount Rothermere that morganatic marriage of the Sovereign will be made possible by the Mother of Parliaments and if necessary also by the daughter Parliaments of the Dominions. Yet London editors go sleepless, reporters exhaust themselves and the Cabinet is reported split three ways within itself as King Edward...
...Oberlaender Trust to promote German-American good-will by sending U. S. scholars to Germany and Austria. In progress at Berkshire Mills since Oct. 1 has been a strike against "sweatshop" conditions (TIME, Dec. 7). By last week's end 135 picketers, lying flat in slush and snow outside the plant, had been arrested for "blocking the sidewalk...