Word: homerically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other events sharpened the lesson that C. I. O.'s U. A. W. has got to quit fussing or die: 1) Seceding President Homer Martin announced that he would confer this week with William Green on A. F. of L. affiliation for his minority. 2) General Motors Corp. announced that in plants where both C. I. O.'s and Homer Martin's U. A. W. claim bargaining rights, big G. M. will bargain with neither. In the circumstances C. I. O.'s renewed plans to organize Ford Motor Co. were more of an exercise in optimism...
...delegates to a special convention were in Cleveland last week to save their union's ninth and last life. Provisional President Roland Jay Thomas, Vice Presidents Hall, Richard Frankensteen and Wyndham Mortimer, Secretary-Treasurer George Addes, many another feudist professed the utmost anxiety to salvage what seceding President Homer Martin had left of their union when he split away last month (TIME, Feb. 6). But not one volunteered to sacrifice his job to that end. One & all were anxious to better themselves, preferably at the expense of fellow officers...
...great popularity. After some tough talking by Murray & Hillman, Mr. Addes agreed to step aside if they would publicly indicate another choice. Loath to convict themselves of "dictatorship," Murray & Hillman at last pointed to amiable, amenable Provisional President Thomas, whom they had upped from a vice-presidency after Homer Martin seceded. Result: fewer dogs were left to fight over the bones...
Meanwhile in Detroit, Homer Martin, head of U. A. W.'s seceding minority, was unable to meet his headquarters payroll until five days after it was due, had to dismiss 35 organizers. Strained by advance disclosure that he was planning to take his faction into A. F. of L., Mr. Martin's nerves snapped when Detroit Timesman Harry Taylor commented caustically upon the sad state of Mr. Martin's affairs. Homer Martin flared up, fisticuffed for five minutes...
...Homer Bone figured that such absurdities could be eliminated, would affect few people anyhow. For 1937, only 48 taxpayers reported net incomes of between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000; only one of above $5,000,000. But Bone & Associates proposed to lower the personal exemption for single persons from $1,000 to $500, for married persons from $2,500 to $1,000, reduce allowances for dependents from $400 to $100, up the basic tax from 4% to 6%. Proposed takings from sample taxable net incomes (before State taxes): $60 from $1,000, $860 from...