Word: labeling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vandenberg talked openly of an open coalition with the conservative Democrats whom Roosevelt was trying to read out. He encouraged his followers to go to ball games with Jack Garner, Pat Harrison and other time-biders, but kept them from doing anything that might revive loyalty to the Democratic label...
Walter Reuther warned G. M. many weeks ago what he was going to do. His chief demands were for wage increases of at least 10? an hour, double pay on Sundays, and a union label on all tools, dies, jigs, parts...
That last demand irked General Motors most. It was the key to Walter Reuther's whole subtle strike purpose. What union label would he prefer? The C. I. 0. label, of course. But not all G. M. workers are C. I. 0. unionists by any means. And the split of United Automobile Workers into a C. I. 0. and an A. F. of L. faction occurred after G. M.'s present contract with U. A. W. was negotiated. Walter Reuther, declared the company, was making demands and calling strikes at this critical time simply to clinch the superiority...
...walked out again with armsful of symphonic phonograph records. The records cost them, not the usual $1.50 or $2 per disk, but about 50?. And they were good: staple works of Schubert, Beethoven, Tschaikowsky, etc. But what orchestras performed them, what company recorded them, was not revealed on the label...
...tricky last chorus--the best he has done lately . . . One of the Brunswick higher officials swears that a be-spectacled clarinet player is going to start recording for them shortly . . . Started to compare some classical vocal records with those of various jazz artists last week in an effort to label differences of phrasing--ran across Marion Anderson's new album of the Songs of Brahms and found it to be beautiful, simple singing, especially the Alto Rhapsody which is built around episodes in the lonely Hartz Mountains in Germany. Miss Anderson makes the stark tonality of the song ring long...