Word: labors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week was a stressful time for John L. Lewis, and a barber of Manhattan's Hotel Commodore ministered daily to the supine prince of Labor...
...Between and under the two hotels rumbling subways and trains entered Grand Central Terminal-all powered by electricity made from coal. The trains, like most U. S. industry, would not rumble much longer unless John Lewis and the operators agreed on a new labor contract. Unless 460,000 miners went back to work in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois, Kentucky, 22 other coal-bearing States, there might be such a strike as the U. S. has not seen in the days of Franklin Roosevelt...
Olin R. Holt of Kokomo, Ind. might have been among the mayors testifying in Washington had he not been turned out of office by Kokomo's voters last November. Last week, Olin R. Holt was convicted, with five other Kokomen, of diverting WPA labor to private enterprise. Mr. Holt spent seven months in Leavenworth eight years ago for protecting bootleggers, regained his civil rights in 1934 when Franklin Roosevelt gave him a full pardon...
...Cleveland (to trainmen): "Labor has ever fought to promote the moral, spiritual and cultural welfare of the people...
...clad alliances in which nothing would be left to discussion and in which Britain, France and Russia would automatically guarantee each others' borders and those of other smaller States. Said Izvestia: "Where there is no reciprocity real collaboration cannot be brought about." Badgered by the French, the British Labor Party and even many of his own Conservatives, Prime Minister Chamberlain may very well soon have to pay this price for Soviet...