Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cushing and Assistant Secretary of Labor Mcgrady sat powerless. Nominally the only issue between the employers and longshoremen was which of them should control the "hiring halls" where stevedores are given jobs. But some 15,000 other shipping workers ? stewards, sailors, cooks, pilots?had struck in sympathy. When joint control of the hiring halls had been proposed the longshoremen rejected it because it provided no settlement for the allied strikers...
...Chicago last week the National Amateur Press Association held its annual convention. At the same time in San Francisco the United Amateur Press Association held its convention. The two have nothing in common except birthplace rivalry and a few joint members. Both are organizations of youngsters and oldsters who have fun printing small periodicals on their own presses. They call themselves "a. j.'s" (amateur journalists). The N. A. P. A. was formed in Philadelphia in 1876. Nineteen years later, also in Philadelphia, the upstart Amateur Press Association of America was founded. Later that organization prefixed "United...
...such as do a toleration hatch." The galleries also included portraits of Edward Rawson who rode clattering through High Street, Boston, to announce the accession of James II to the Throne of England, the Rev. John Davenport, friend of Cotton Mather, famed for his "ejaculatory prayers" and the Rev. Joint Bailey who died seeing his Savior and murmuring to his wife, "Oh, what shall I say, He is altogether lovely...
...March 1933 President Roosevelt suspended gold payments. In June 1933 Congress adopted joint Resolution No. 10 voiding all contracts to pay in gold. Last week, more than a year later, a Federal court passed for the first time on the legality of the Government's action...
...office Joe Ryan sat down with ship owners and representatives of the Mari time Workers' Union, signed an agreement under which the flow of commerce, stagnant for 39 days, was to be resumed. Main features of the agreement were : recognition of I. L. A. for collective bar gaining; joint control of employment by the union and employers; arbitration of the hour-wage dispute. But the agreement did not grant "closed shop," and was quickly rejected by the Portland and San Francisco locals. To be effective it must be ratified by a two-thirds majority of all West Coast...