Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James F. Dewey, C. L O.'s Frankensteen backslapped Chrysler's Weckler, who beamed right back at Mr. Frankensteen. They had agreed on some minor provisions for a new bargaining contract but had yet to settle their prime differences: 1) whether the management alone should decide how hard & fast union men shall work, and 2) whether union men shall have first call on Chrysler jobs...
Once there was a little man in a long black coat who roamed the hard-coal fields of Pennsylvania, doing mighty deeds for the United Mine Workers of America. He was John Mitchell, and quite a boy. At 28, he was president of the union; at 32 (in 1902), he led the strike which won an eight-hour day in the coal fields. Soft-coal miners voted him out of office in 1908, eventually put John Llewellyn Lewis in John Mitchell's place. But since John Mitchell died in 1919, he rather than John Lewis has been the sainted...
Practice was carried on in routine fashion yesterday afternoon as Coach Dick Harlow handed out the final dose of hard work to his men in preparation for tomorrow's game. There was the customary display of Cadet plays and formations, the usual amount of hopeful pass offense, and finally some signal drills...
Looking back on those days, it is hard to believe how the storm gathered force, how a quiet country slowly swept on towards hatred and war. The beginnings were small, and the end so terrible. But the beginnings added up. Then as now, the men at the top of the hierarchy, the college presidents and the ministers raised the war-cry. The change from indifference to raging militarism was the work of a few months...
...second straight day, Jim Devine held down the A team right end position, while Bart Kelly filled in at the other end in the excused absence of Loren MacKinney, who studied today. Gene Lovett is making Devine work hard to keep his place, and the two wingmen are providing one of the hottest battles for a starting berth that Harlow has seen this season...