Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mass picketing by students of Harvard, Radcliffe, and Wellesley took place in Harvard Square yesterday for the striking drivers of the Yellow Cab Company on the eve of today's meeting of the State Arbitration Board investigating the labor dispute...
...Edinburgh, two into the Army and Navy. One is an educator (Will Spens, Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge), one a big businessman (John Boot, Lord Trent, head of the great Boots drugstore chain), one a diplomat (Sir Auckland Geddes, Ambassador to Washington, 1920-24), one a labor specialist (Harold Butler, former Director of the International Labor Office, Geneva). Five have had long Government experience, six saw active War duty. One makes the paper for English bank notes. One has an inferiority complex. One is stone-deaf, uses a mechanical ear and when seated by some one he dislikes, shuts...
Milquetoast. For over a year, Britain's Labor Party has urged the Government to set up a Ministry of Supply-an agency to conscript business for war just as the Army may conscript men. Last week such a Ministry was finally created. In wartime it will see that Government orders get precedence, that businesses get fair but limited profits. All England wondered whether Neville Chamberlain would give the Ministry to an aggressive man of action-Winston Churchill, for example. When the Prime Minister rose in the House of Commons and announced that the job would...
...been the scene of an inquiry into the domestic relations of one of the most respected members of the U. S. press. The defendant: the New York Times. Its accuser: the American Newspaper Guild. The judge: Trial Examiner Tilford E. Dudley, who will give his findings to the National Labor Relations Board, which will eventually hand down a decision. The charge: violation of the Wagner Act by intimidating and discriminating against Guild members...
Already the fair's business stimulus has spread far beyond Manhattan. Washington is sprucing up for an expected 5,000,000 more summer visitors than usual. The $100,000.000 worth of materials used in building the fair have come from every corner of the U. S. Labor has benefited by some 96,000,000 man-hours. American Express Co. reports an 8 to 10% increase in export and import freight due to the fair. Railroads, airlines, busses joyously await "the greatest travel movement in history...