Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basis of non-partisan control of the hiring halls, Leader Bridges and his embattled followers turned down the agreement because it did not provide for their allies. Their determination to win unconditional victory upon all fronts blocked all subsequent attempts at settlement. It led President Ryan to join with employers in accusing Leader Bridges of deliberately fomenting industrial warfare for Communistic purposes...
...National Guardsmen marched in. Thenceforward the struggle ceased to be between strikers and employers but became a struggle between strikers and the State. The marine workers appealed to their fellow unions for a general strike, and San Francisco's militant unions jumped to take sides. Some groups, reluctant to join, were intimidated. Aggressive strike leaders had, however, a potent cause, an issue to arouse emotion: should Labor impose its will or should it knuckle down? San Francisco Labor chose its course, to make the public and back of the public the State and back of the State the employers...
These industries were hardly caviar to the general. He ordered them to : 1) complete their proposed codes in 15 days; or 2) join up with allied industries already under codes; or 3 ) accept a new basic code containing general labor and hour provisions to which they might later add trade-practice requirements...
Masters & Men. Thus after monarchs, missionaries and merchants came a Montanan to join the company of rulers who have governed the Sandwich Islanders. In 1820 in the days of the sandalwood trade, when missionaries began to arrive by shiploads, the islands were ruled by the native dynasty founded by the great Kamehameha. The missionaries undertook more than the care of Polynesian souls. They became advisers and ministers to the native monarchs. Their lay offspring became merchants and, with Yankee traders who settled there, took the islands' economic upbringing firmly in hand. Thus sprang up a benevolent white aristocracy which developed...
...Building, marched into the office of Commissioner James M. Landis. The first meeting of the new Securities & Exchange Commission was about to be held, a chairman elected. In an office four doors down the corridor waited Commissioners Matthews, Healy and Kennedy. Thirty minutes passed and Mr. Pecora did not join his colleagues to start business. Every few minutes Mr. Landis would step out, glowering darkly, hurry down to the other office to whisper a few words, hurry back to Mr. Pecora. At 3:30 he summoned Mr. Kennedy into his office, slammed all windows tight against newshawks' eavesdropping...