Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Specifically the Board had learned that in a number of cases industries were rapidly patching up their own company-controlled unions to get under the "collective bargaining'' wire of the Recovery Act. In Kentucky coal miners who refused to join hated company unions were being evicted from company-owned houses. The Board angrily pointed to that section of the act which stipulates: "Employes shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and shall be free from the interference, restraint or coercion of employers of labor." When open hearings begin...
...Beta Theta Pi was worse until 1916 when college authorities commissioned Charles Phelps Taft II, son of William Howard Taft, to assemble a group of desirables, join Bet, raise its social status...
...husband, a loud-mouthed magician, is a bigamist. A bibulous sideshow barker (Frank McHugh) marries her to save her from the disgrace of having an illegitimate child and Lilly Turner spends the rest of the picture gloomily giving him money to buy whiskey. They leave their carnival and join a medicine show in which the strong man becomes so inflamed by the sight of Miss Chatterton's legs in silk tights that he goes mad and is removed to an asylum. Lilly Turner consoles herself for her husband's dipsomania and the sad tenor of her existence...
...banks which are members of the Federal Reserve are obliged to join the guarantee scheme...
...Nichols interests which joined with the Solvay company to form the opposition are, of course, not foreigners, but Mr. Weber took the opportunity to dig Son Nichols by quoting a letter of his late father to Armand Solvay in which objection was made to the Solvays' aim to build up a world chemical consortium and have Allied join...