Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight Reo Machinist Guy Hack convinced U. S. District Judge Arthur F. Lederle in Detroit that the 1,500 Reo employes at Lansing should have a hand in saving the company and their jobs, wangled a place on the reorganized board for a director to be elected by the workers. Last week Reo's workers elected Guy Hack, who is also president of their C. I. O. local. To objections that he could not be Union President Hack and Company Director Hack at the same time, Guy Hack answered that he cannot hire and fire, therefore still retains...
...trades union officials to enroll. Two University of California instructors did the teaching (at the joint expense of the State and the U. S. Department of the Interior, under an arrangement available to but seldom used by other industrialists). Says Pabco's Lowe: ". . . We're willing to hand it to the unions. . . [they] not only increased efficiency in our plant, but they are helping to sell our products. That's what we got out of playing ball with them...
Minister Rodríguez scooted back to Lima, gathered a handful of followers, largely Government employes from his own ministry, and marched into the Government Palace. He summoned the Army officer in command of the palace machine-gun squad. "I am assuming the Executive post since General Benavides is leaving Peru," announced the Minister. "Hand over your command." The officer pretended to accept the order. Once outside the palace, however, he quickly telephoned the President's home, informed General Benavides' aides of the coup, then locked himself in the palace observation tower and trained his machine guns...
...barring totalitarians from his laboratories, Bridgman does not prevent them from obtaining the information contained therein. If anything of military importance is developed in the Bridgman sanctum sanctum, it is being sane rather than romantic, to admit that the dictatorships can easily obtain the required information at second hand. But the most telling criticism levelled at the recent ban is not one of impracticality. By endeavoring to combat fascism by means of a typical fascist technique, the learned professor is setting a precedent which may easily lead to less harmless abuses of the American tradition of freedom. From prohibition...
...Juniors, Bill Croach and Hal Park, are also expert wielders of the epee. Croach has now recovered from the injuries to his hand and ankle which handicapped him earlier in the season...