Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they number 65,000 (TIME'S figure) and control the C.I.O., the A.F. of L., the American League for Peace and Democracy, the unemployed, the PWA, Farley's Post Office, half of the colleges, the Protestant churches, the Federal Theatre and Art Project, the Farmer-Labor Party, Hollywood, the Newspaper Guild, the State Department, I suggest they be used to sell air-conditioning and thus remake this country as did mass production of the automobile...
...formally renouncing their plan for a 15% wage-cut, as recommended by President Roosevelt's fact-finding board (TIME, Nov. 7), the U. S. railroads dumped their whole rehabilitation problem into Mr. Roosevelt's lap. He promptly asked the six-man committee representing Management and Labor chosen by him in September, to work up a program of railroad legislation for him to present to Congress when it convenes...
...problem of public relations, he states, was not being well handled by the University, which could learn much from various business concerns, labor unions, and from Yale, with its annual report to the New Haven community. "Harvard has not brushed the surface of what can and should be done," he said...
This week, apparently to push it along, Mr. Roosevelt conferred with the two rival commanders - Chairman George Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association and President John J. Pelley of the Association of American Railroads...
...Dean charged Richard C. Evarts, City Solicitor, with insulting organized labor along with Mgr. John A. Ryan and Senator David I. Walsh when he spoke against the proposal Friday. Evarts, Landis said, had labelled proportional representation, a feature of Plan E, as a "crap game," after Ryan, Walsh and labor groups had been forthright in the approval of the referendum...