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Word: laboring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Purpose of the meeting was to weld the scattered defense leagues into a national pressure group with a program of slum clearance, Government rent control, increased legal responsibilities for landlords. Although the Labor Party lawyers' Haldane Club supplies it with free legal advice, no political party except the Communist has yet taken official notice of the Federation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: After Elsy | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...since General Franco flew from the Canary Islands to Morocco to launch the Civil War. The anniversary of the revolt was a bright, cool day that ended a heat wave. At the lunch hour, factory workers listened to the reading of decrees announcing a "fiesta for the exaltation of labor" and promising wages high enough to give the "humble classes" access to culture. All over Spain there were prayers and parades, masses and mass meetings, chants and cheers for Francisco Franco; all over Spain there were uniforms-the khaki of the regular Army, red berets and blue shirts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Three Years | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Aside from the Teamsters' Union, California labor was not represented at the meeting. C. I. O. leaders believe that Mr. Copperman's Union, once aggressive, was taken into camp by MRA. And Californians recall how, five years ago, Buchmanites claimed they had "settled" the longshoremen's strike, "the first strike in history in which Christ was called upon to act as arbiter." That strike went on long after Buchmanites had been guided to urge the longshoremen to forget their troubles, go back to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: MRA in Hollywood | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...young people were Jocists, members of a Belgian-born youth movement, Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne (Christian Working Youth), which militantly aims to Christianize the ranks of labor (TIME, Sept. 26). For eight years Jocism's most vigorous leader in Canada has been Father Roy, 40, a onetime newsboy who belongs to the same religious order (Oblates of Mary Immaculate) as Quebec's Cardinal Villeneuve. To Father Roy, 50,000 Canadian Jocists, aged 14 to 25, look for spiritual inspiration. The mass marriage was his biggest effort to date in providing it. It would, he thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jocists to Altar | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

NEWSPAPER MAN of thirty-one years' experience is desirous of job. Has worked as reporter, copyreader, rewrite, book reviews, dramatic critic, war correspondent, sports writer, columnist and briefly as publisher. Of neat appearance, although labor agitator. Not sure of recommendation from present post. No reasonable offer will be refused. Address Mr. X., P. 0. Box 521, Stamford, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 31, 1939 | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

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