Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Homer Martin had just bared his pearls in one of the most fantastic episodes in U. S. Labor history. In 1934-35 the onetime Baptist minister in Kansas City helped organize U. A. W. as an A. F. of L. union. In 1936 he took it into C. I. O. In 1937 he fought and won a bitter strike with General Motors, signed up that giant, and all motormakers except Henry Ford. In 1938, he quarreled with his co-founders and lieutenants, and his union of 375,000 men (third largest in C. I. O.) was saved from falling apart...
...place in those courses will be filled by three men. Thomas R. Powell, Langdell Professor of Law, takes over in Administrative Law; Professor Henry M. Hart will go behind the desk in Federal Jurisdiction; and Dean Landis is putting himself in to handle both Public Utilities and Labor Law. In other words, no pronounced swing, to the Right is contemplated...
...Zealand is not only breathtakingly beautiful but socially remarkable. Her history has been marked by long and clear-cut periods of alternate radicalism and conservatism. Between 1890 and 1912 a progressive Government passed graduated income taxes, woman suffrage, labor regulation and old-age pension acts, and other laws which were models for liberal legislators elsewhere. The way the Maoris were treated-today they are the only Polynesian people who are increasing-was and is a criterion for other governments with native problems to follow...
...riding in on a wave of prosperity, conservatives took over New Zealand, and though the Labor Party periodically showed its head (there were serious strikes in 1913, 1916, 1921-22), dominated politics and policies for the next 23 years...
Dance Director LeRoy Prinz complained bitterly to the Screen Actors' Guild that Producer Earl Carroll, who fortnight ago opened the most elaborate cabaret-theatre-restaurant on the West Coast (TIME, Jan. 9), was violating the Wagner Labor Relations Act. Said he: "Carroll is trying to corner all the legs in Hollywood-the legs that we have trained...