Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Recognition in eleven other plants is subject to the outcome of employe elections, which G. M. has petitioned NLRB to hold. If NLRB in the G. M. elections follows a precedent laid down last week for employe voting in Chrysler and Briggs (bodies), Homer Martin's union may yet get a foothold. For, instead of holding the elections on a company-wide basis, as C. I. O. asked, the Labor Board called for voting plant-by-plant. General Motors, Chrysler and others thus would have to deal with C. I. O. in some shops...
...named Maurice Gamelin had written out Joffre's historic Instruction No.2: "Having been unable to carry out the offensive maneuver originally planned, future operations will be conducted in such a way as to reconstruct on our left a force capable to resuming the offensive . . . while the other armies hold the enemy in check for such time as may be necessary...
Last week plump Business Manager Bickelhaupt called the Tribune staff together, gave a pep talk, promised a bigger and better newspaper to battle the Star-Journal for supremacy in the Northwest. Possibility: that the all-day Tribune would split into two papers, hold its morning circulation, go after the silk-stocking evening Journal readers...
...veritable fury of destruction seized hold of me. Break it up! I wanted to shout. Smash away! Bust it to bits! Everything had gone red in front of my eyes. If I had had an axe or a lump of iron in my hand I should have hit out with it and smashed up myself and everyone else with the wild recklessness of a maniac...
...HOLD A HUSBAND-Dorothy Dix - Doubleday, Doran...