Word: footholds
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...which had demanded a union election in hope of getting control of automobile labor, had to be content with a bargaining foothold. The motor manufacturers won their fight to keep the A. F. of L. from setting up a closed shop in the industry. President Roosevelt himself described the terms under which the strike was averted...
Peculiar, is it not, that American efficiency and ingenuity must allow such an ugly peril to gain foothold in order that lusty private enterprise might coin more wealth and on the other hand spend thousands of the taxpayers' money to control and fight the dread scourge...
...that the Brobingnagians have lost their foothold in New York, and a reform administration has been elevated into power, there seems to be some hope for a real experiment in municipal government. Major LaGuardia, it is true, has not much in common with Seth Low or with Tom Johnson, the conspicuous high water marks in the movement, but he has a definite program and is a man of undoubted force and integrity. The qualifications, however, which operated with Johnson and Low will also operate with him, and perhaps to an even higher degree, so that the success of his program...
Superior officers had by this time noted Samurai Araki's keenness. He was promoted to the General Staff. During the World War, when Japan seized Germany's foothold on the Chinese mainland (Kiaochow) but was later forced to disgorge it, Staff Officer Araki was Japanese military attaché in Russia, gained invaluable knowledge of modern practices of slaughter by incessant observation trips up and down the Eastern Front...
Rothermere for the Press & Journal, paying the absurd figure of ?750,000 to keep the enemy out of camp. In Hull, Gloucester, Bristol, Staffordshire, many another town, Rothermere.got a foothold. Wherever both camps had papers, there was a furious fight for circulation. In Newcastle, Rothermere planted his Evening World in opposition to Camrose's old established Chronicle. In 100 days he ran the World's circulation to 176,000, two-and-a-half times the Chronicle's. Baron Camrose wailed in protest against the Rothermere circulation method, which was to give free and hearty dinners plus free...