Word: labors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting of Conservative Party women in London, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain used stronger words. He had chatted with former French Premier Leon Blum, who went over to London to try to persuade his British Labor colleagues to accept conscription. M. Blum had told Mr. Chamberlain what he considered the greatest danger of war in Europe today: the impression that Britain and France would not fulfill their promises. The Prime Minister told the ladies...
Last week frightened steelmen could not help recalling the story of a week last autumn. When steelmen returned jauntily from 1938 Labor Day weekends, they were confident that no more dreary months of 25% and 30% operations lay ahead-October would start the 1939 auto model year off with a bang. Soon all steel-peddling haunts buzzed with reports that auto production schedules called for 1,000.000 1939 cars by year's end. At a ton of steel per car, Detroit would have to buy 1,000,000 tons. Buick had just bought 35,000 tons. Ford was shopping...
...week's cuts, steel production fell this week to 45.4% (last week 47%, fortnight ago 49%). Unless more business follows soon, steel's price cuts will raise questions: How far can steel prices tumble without steel managements opening fire on wages? What then of wages generally, and labor peace? Will other prices follow down the price of steel? Can industry afford to buy materials months in advance in the face of threatening inventory losses and production curtailment? How soon will the auto-steel logjam break, so that Detroit can again lead U. S. business to another upturn...
...favorite passenger line and its 78-year-old president, Daniel Willard, is his good friend. Genial Dan Willard is also the good friend of RFC Chairman Jesse Jones and has many a warm admirer in Congress, where he is regarded as a liberal with a good railroad labor record. In the last year and a half this widespread affection for President Willard is about all that has saved the sore-pressed B. & 0. from reorganization...
When his offer to organize a volunteer company in the Spanish-American War was refused, Charles Beard went to Oxford, helped organize its first labor college (Ruskin), chummed with Ramsay MacDonald in British labor circles. From 1904 to 1917 he was one of Columbia University's most popular professors...