Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yellow-dog" contract is an agreement of employment wherein the employe promises the employer not to join any labor union. Largely because he once upheld the validity of such a contract, so hateful to union labor, the Senate rejected the nomination of U. S. Circuit Judge John Johnston Parker of North Carolina to the Supreme Court (TIME, May 19, 1930). Declared the House Judiciary Committee reporting H. R. 5315: "The vice of such contracts, which are becoming alarmingly widespread, is that if they are carried to their ultimate conclusion, they would abolish trade-unionism. That is undoubtedly the purpose...
...best records during the season. Only 45 pistols will be used, and the men will have to pay for their own ammunition. The team is to be entered in the Intercollegiate matches held early in May, and other shoots may be arranged. All men intending to try out will join the Rifle Club in order to obtain the use of the Walnut Hill range...
...Madrid potent Juan de la Cierva, father of the famed inventor of the autogiro, agreed with Count de Romanones that the manifesto is genuine, expressed his disgust at the depths of hypocrisy it revealed. It was understood that Count de Romanones and Juan de la Cierva proposed to join forces, founding a new Monarchist Party to elevate as King of Spain someone other than Don Alfonso XIII...
...three years a joint commission representing the Methodist Episcopal Church, Methodist Episcopal Church, South and the Methodist Protestant Church has been working on a revised hymnal and psalter. One group studied words, another music. This week the full commission was to meet at Cincinnati to join the efforts of the two groups, ratify the changes recommended by each...
Among the 57 applicants to join the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowships, eight professors who have received degrees from Harvard University were awarded stipenda averaging $2500 to carry on research work, H. A. Moc, secretary for the Foundation announced yesterday. The grants, which are available to assist research in any field of knowledge or creative work in any of the fine arts, are usually made to young scholars who have done distinguished original study...