Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United Automobile Workers celebrated that Sit-Down's first anniversary by sitting down once in the Detroit Cadillac plant, twice in the Fisher Body plant in Pontiac, where 14,700 General Motors workers were promptly thrown out of work.* Outlawed by the union, unsupported by officers of the local, the second Fisher Body strike was soon down to something like old times with the Sit-Downers holding a week-end dance in the plant cafeteria...
...publicity-seeking" and "cheap methods of gaining notoriety", we state without qualification that the publicity in the Boston papers was unsolicited on our part, and unknown to us before its appearance. We cannot feel obliged to avoid controversial issues merely because the local press finds the labor situation at Harvard worthy of front page coverage...
Inaugurating the indoor season here, the Varsity will face a local Class A outfit, to be announced later, on December 11. The team is up against no college opposition until February...
...toothy Public Utility Act of 1935 with its famed "death sentence" for holding companies, but it has gone in for direct and indirect competition on a vast and widening scale. Government money built TVA and Bonneville. Government money has been pressed upon municipalities to buy or build their own local power systems. Government money has subsidized rural electrification. Meantime, in the past seven years, the value of U. S. utility securities has fallen some $7,000,000,000, and private powermen have brewed a peculiarly vitriolic fear and hatred of the New Deal and all its power works...
...police, told the junkmen they were not employes but independent merchants and not covered by the Wagner Act. So last week junkmen began organizing a co-operative junk yard to ignore both wholesalers and retailers and sell direct to the mills. Hurt, the wholesaling members of Chicago's local Metal Institute retired to St. Joseph, Mich., to hear Milton Silverstein keynote their convention on "Playing the Game...