Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Restaurateur Komen, weight 130 lb. came out. "So you won't join the NRA?" shrieked Wright, leaping upon him, pummeling his face until the blood ran, tearing one ear loose. Somebody held up an NRA emblem. Wright pushed Komen's face against it, held it there until Komen's gory lips kissed it. The crowd whooped with glee. Wright was jailed. Komen promised to join the NRA Sept...
...Said the code: "No employe and no one seeking employment shall be required as a condition of employment to join any company union or to refrain from joining, organizing or assisting a labor organization of his own choosing...
Died. Harry Cushing Collins, 45, first U. S. citizen to join the Allied Forces in the World War; in a Boston rooming house, after four years' unemployment. Refused enlistment in the regular French Army, he led 26 young U. S. volunteers into the Foreign Legion, was gassed and twice wounded during service in France, Belgium, Serbia, Greece...
...legitimate so long as it is the one workers want. A. F. of L. organizers hurried from plant to plant, harangued prospective members, offered to reduce or waive initiation fees if they would only sign up. In some cases they even misled workers by telling them they had to join national unions to get NRA benefits. In the South they claimed 150,000 enrollments in 30 days...
...Bayswater, where Stephen studied architecture. Later, as a practicing architect, he was too obliging to examine closely the shoddy materials his friends the contractors supplied him. Consequently he got a bad reputation, lapsed into weak self-pity. When his brother decided to reside in England permanently, Stephen managed to join him again, began to let his business slide. Maxwell bought "Shipmates," the country seat of Sir Nigel Fearless, a bankrupt baronet, who promptly proceeded to drown himself as a family tradition required. Great was Stephen's resentment when his brother fell in love with the baronet's widow...