Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, a rival A. F. of L. union had won a local toe hold by signing a contract with a smaller association of warehouse operators. No. 1 provision: no strikes, no lockouts for five years...
Previously permission to hold the meeting was limited by the restriction that there be "no reporting of the meeting in the press, either by advance releases or by reporters at the meeting. A written acceptance must be received from each of the four speakers who will understand and agree to all above conditions...
...said, "the committee got a hold of me and told me they had a stiff assignment down in Raleigh, N. C. I told 'em that was too far to go, but when they said they had chosen me because they figured I could complete the game, I showed interest. They told me that the clash between these schools (the small Wake Forest and the big Duke, only 20 miles apart) had broken up in free-for-alls for the last couple of years...
Rising from its ashes like the Phoenix of antique fame, the Classical Club meets tonight at 8:15 o'clock in Leverett's Junior Common Room, to hold tryouts for Aristophanes comedy "The Birds," which it will present in Greek in early next spring...
...appointments of Keith and Lyman were automatic by virtue of the positions which they hold respectively as chairman of the Red Book and captain of the football team...