Word: iron-clad
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Before the Labor Board could pass on the case, the A. F. of L. took its iron-clad contract to a Federal district court, which ordered National Electric to live up to its terms-an order the company gladly obeyed. Last week, just as National Electric was posting this order throughout its plant, the Labor Board cracked down with a thunderous ruling that the A. F. of L. contract was "void and of no effect." Its "precipitate granting," held the Board, smacked of trickery, since the company knew that the A. F. of L. union "did not represent the free...
...cylinder Oldsmobile, driven by a couple in dusters, goggles, veils, and beside it the elegant open caleche of Mr. Harris Fahnestock containing a frock-coated dandy and his feather-boaed wife. A tandem bicycle with a boomer girl in front, a Norfolk-jacketed scorcher behind. An exhibition of the iron-clad blue serge bathing suits suitable for Far Rockaway in the days of Theodore Roosevelt. A genuine Morris chair, a cylinder phonograph, a pianola. Photographs of Olga Nethersole as Sappho, Ethel Barrymore in Captain Jinks, Maude Adams as L'Aiglon. First editions of When Knighthood Was in Flower...
...publicity given these examinations, information was received from New Haven that next year "three will probably be an iron-clad rule made with no special cases for those with high marks...
Less popular brands are constantly trying to find chinks in the iron-clad hold which the Big Three have on the mass market. During Depression the 10?-brands found a chink, pushed through to a market that last year amounted to some 13 billion cigarets sold. Last week Philip Morris thought it had discovered another opening...
Since the hoped-for reduction in the number of members seemed a stronger purgative than the Constitutional Committee was willing to take, some iron-clad provision should be made to drop those members who enter the Council as they would a club. Under the new constitution a member who misses three successive meetings "may" be removed by a two-thirds vote. This provision should be made mandatory in all except the most extraordinary cases. In the past the Council has been most prodigal in overlooking the shortcomings of its members, and unless expulsion for non-attendance is made more binding...