Word: locales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This meeting was the final flash of a highly electric U. A. W. week. When President Martin heard it had been called, he promptly called two rival meetings of his own, one the same day in Detroit for the heads of U. A. W.'s Michigan locals, another next day in Cleveland for Ohio locals-in order to make union men choose which side they would meet with. But having announced his intention to keep his Detroit meeting going until midnight if necessary to put deserters on the spot, he adjourned it early, mournfully watched a line of cars...
...higher share to cities on State taxes on liquor, gasoline, automobiles, income, sales, inheritances. (The New Deal's long-range program for U. S. public finance is supposed to favor such tax-sharing with the Federal Government in return for Federal taxation of income from future State and local securities...
Richard Malone of Smithfield, Pa. received a letter last month identifying him as WPA Worker No. 4426-38632 and assigning him to work on a local road project. His parents, on relief, did nothing about it; obviously it was a clerical error. When Richard received another letter, firing him from the job for failure to report, his brother Albert, 20, went to WPA headquarters, explained that Richard, aged 7, was in the second grade. WPA headquarters then cut the Malone family off relief. At length Brother Albert got himself certified as the "priority worker" of the family and was awarded...
...truce simply provided that the two armies "cease all military action on August 11 at midday, local time." According to official Red Army communiques from the scene, this left a Japanese force extending 650 feet into what Russia considers Soviet soil and a Soviet force extending at a different point 980 feet into what Japan considers Manchukuoan soil...
Flag of Truce. The negotiators in Moscow arranged that the local Soviet and Japanese commanders should meet on the field of battle under a flag of truce and exchange signed copies of a map, showing down to the last yard the positions which they held, so that no cheating could go on during the armistice. On the top of the hill, between a row of Japanese soldiers on one side and Russians on the other, the commanders met and argued from noon to 6:15 p. m. The officers reached a verbal agreement but signed no map at this parley...