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Word: foremans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before during the National Labor Relations Board hearings on the Ford Motor Co. case in Detroit (TIME, July 26), Louis J. Colombo Sr., the swart, able Ford counsel, shouted one day last week: "I object." Lawyer Colombo objected to the way the Labor Board counsel was riding a Ford foreman who testified that he fired a man, not for union activity as charged, but for "gazing off into space." But Lawyer Colombo's objection was overruled by Trial Examiner John T. Lindsay. Lawyer Colombo started to say: "I am going to object every time . . ." when Examiner Lindsay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On Bias | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

Sure enough, as soon as Chief Switter, who had been working 16 to 20 hours per day, went to the country for an evening with his wife, the self-appointed leaders of the new deputies took charge of the police station. One witness testified that he overheard a Republic foreman remark early that day: "We're going to clean them up tonight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Steel Aftermath | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...days later he took two application cards to work with him in his cap. While mopping his brow, the cards fluttered down 40 ft. from his crane to the floor. One he managed to retrieve but the other was picked up by a fellow worker. Five days later the foreman fired him, saying: "I guess you don't want to work here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Fordism v. Unionism | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

...delinquency of a minor. She wrote to him during the eleven months of his confinement and after he was paroled she went back to live with him in Indio, Calif, where he, a skilled electrician, onetime technical chief of Radio Station KFI, had found work as electrical foreman on an aqueduct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Dark MacDonalds | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

Almost the only way for a workman to rise is to become a foreman, he said, but that opportunity has greatly decreased. "The number of foremen has increased a little more than half as fast as the number of factories since the depression, while the means to launch into self-employment have almost vanished. Labor leaders frankly admit that unlimited opportunity for the workman is a thing of the past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Walsh Sees More Industrial Unions, New Labor Party, Result of Lost Opportunity for Workers | 5/13/1937 | See Source »

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