Word: line
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marine is a major and unnecessary tragedy. After earnest counsel with Rear Admiral Emory Scott Land of the Maritime Commission, he presented to the Senate, with his peculiar, Biblical eloquence, the Admiral's conclusions. (Meantime his onetime colleague, cadaverous William Gibbs McAdoo, now head of the American President Line, used his prerogative as an ex-Senator to lobby slickly on the Senate floor for Pacific Coast shipping...
...line Party members well know Charles Dirba, a blue-eyed, stoop-shouldered, middle-aged Lett, conscientious, able, hard-working who for years has run the Communist Control Commission that passes on expulsions from the Party. When one comrade wishes to denounce another comrade, he writes out his charges, sends them to Comrade Dirba. Comrades may denounce each other as police spies, wreckers, Trotskyites, Lovestoneites, grafters, stool pigeons, for spreading stories about the central committee, for social fascism, for individualism, for anti-Party tendencies, for rotten liberalism, rotten intellectualism, conciliationism, for having personal relations with Trotskyites, for white chauvinism, for Zionism...
...battle began at Chrysler Corp.'s Dodge plant in Hamtramck, a Detroit suburb noted for its putrescent politics and its high proportion (90%) of Polish-Americans. As 1940 Dodges took shape on the assembly lines, company inspectors time & again had to halt the production flow to check up on botched work, missing parts. Harassed Dodge bosses were up against a new flowering of an old technique-the slowdown. After Dodge fired 64 union sloths, then refused to reinstate them, every second unit slid untouched past key workers. Union girls refused to touch De Soto arm rests on a parts...
...destroyed the union last year, C. I. O.'s U. A. W. was in fettle for a drag-out fight with Chrysler. After that, great G. M. also might be called on to let its workers slowdown by agreement, or see them slowdown by conspiracy on the assembly line...
...prime attraction was his snuff. Jerry Sadler's desk is littered with empty Garrett Snuff cans and adorned with a tarnished silver snuffbox. Last July he told a snuff-dippers' convention: "Every old-line politician lined up against me. But I had one advantage . . . I was a snuff dipper. As a boy it was sometimes my duty to go cut a black gum toothbrush for my Grandmother, who was a snuff dipper. Practically all the elderly Christian mothers and grandmothers of that community (Hickory Grove, Texas) were snuff dippers. These modern women with one baby and a cigaret...