Word: leos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past. As Detroit motor plants roared toward the close of a 400,000-car month, A. F. of L. leaders gnashed their teeth with the realization that their advantage over the employers was slipping. Soon their talk of an industry-wide walkout would lose its bite. Easy-going Dr. Leo Wolman's Automobile Labor Board, appointed by the President to settle the industry's collective bargaining problem, infuriated the labor organizers by giving them no pat decision to reject or accept. The Board, however, did begin a careful survey of the union status (company...
Whether or not the American people get jitters from the word "strike," the Automobile Labor Board had good cause to worry over the word. The Board, headed by Dr. Leo Wolman, went to Racine, Wis. to settle a six-week strike of 4,600 men in the Nash Motors and Seaman Body plants. It arranged an agreement on the basis of a 10% wage increase. All seemed settled when, at the last minute, strikers voted down the agreement. Meantime the Board had shuttled back to Detroit where trouble had brewed during its absence. A strike for a general wage increase...
...year-old peon brat watching the underlings of a haciendado beat the life out of Villa Sr. He shoots the flogger, scampers into the hills. He is next to be observed grown up into Wallace Beery, head of a plundering horseback gang, with a lieutenant named Sierra (Leo Carillo) and a childlike appetite for shootings and hangings. When Francisco Madero (Henry B. Walthall), who was historically Mexico's president from November 1911 to February 1913. appears on the scene he realizes Villa's usefulness, invites him to make his gang a regiment...
Neutral member of the board was picked by President Roosevelt. As Labor and Industry's representatives, zealous to serve their constituencies, were expected to be deadlocked most of the time, this third member became a man of decisive importance. He was Dr. Leo Wolman, chairman of NRA's Labor Advisory Board and a member of the National Labor Board...
...requisite adjustment made through the Christian doctrine of individuality, and now that the doctrine of individuality, has been dulled into the concept of individualism, we may expect the Christian doctrine of equality to orient the churches with a new economic society. So much had been pointed out by Leo XIII, but institutions are more sluggish than doctrines; Dr. Niebuhr has attempted to show the probable behavior of ecclesiastical institutions under the impact of an economic and political crisis...