Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...busmen's holiday, nine of Greyhound Corp.'s affiliated companies filed one of the most remarkable suits in the history of U. S. labor. They asked $6,300,000 damages from the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, President Alexander Fell Whitney and 19 other Brothers on the ground that the strike was called, not to improve wages and working conditions of bus drivers, but in behalf of railroad passenger traffic. The trainmen for years, it was argued, have tried "to limit development of highway passenger transportation." It seemed quite obvious to Greyhound-at least for propaganda purposes-that since...
...three weeks ago, Franklin Roosevelt promised soon to deliver another, discussing means of ending the current Recession. Last week he did so. Read to both Houses while the President was embarking on a fishing trip, the second message to the extra session took the form of a grand-scale ground-plan to revive U. S. industry by a nationwide housing drive backed by private capital. Said the President: "From the point of view of widespread and sustained economic recovery, housing constitutes the largest and most promising single field for private enterprise. Housing construction has not kept pace with either...
...public trial of Tomsky in the familiar Moscow style would have split proletarian opinion irretrievably, and his suicide smoothed the ground upon which was negotiated in six days last week the affiliation with Iftu of the Soviet Trade Unions...
...William Seifriz of the University of Pennsylvania lives a quiet bachelor's life in Chester Springs, collects old Italian bronze and French porcelain, permits no telephone in his house. At his ground-floor laboratory in Philadelphia he good-humoredly allows an impertinent squirrel to come in by the window, make off with chocolate bars and filter paper. Squirrels, however, are not Dr. Seifriz' favorite pets. On a far greater favorite of his he last week performed an experiment with extraordinary results...
Nathaniel Peffer, professor, at Columbia University, denied that there was a "middle ground between neutrality and war," and proposed a "do-nothing policy as the one chance for peace." Turning to the Far-Eastern conflict he said that only military force could stop Japan...