Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minority of the industry's 450,000 employes. Formed was a Flint Alliance of 8,500 citizens, headed by onetime Mayor George Boysen. to combat the strike. In Flint and elsewhere some 47,000 G. M. employes were reported to have signed petitions declaring themselves content with their lot, anxious to keep on working. President Martin cried "vigilantes" at the Flint Alliance, denounced Leader Boysen as a onetime G. M. paymaster, accused G. M. of obtaining the petition signatures by intimidation, promised to complain to the National Labor Relations Board. But that many a G. M. worker hated & feared...
...Broun's were gathered a group of liberal-thinking newshawks, and, with them, Mr. Broun's friend, bright-eyed little Lawyer Morris Leopold Ernst. Hatched at this and subsequent meetings was what has since grown to be the American Newspaper Guild. Lawyer Ernst had a lot of ideas about the newshawks' union, became its lawyer, drafted its constitution...
...relief of their socialite constituents the city councilmen of Palm Beach last week thumbed down a proposed town trailer camp, decreed that the presence of more than one automobile trailer on a private lot constituted a public nuisance. In another rebuff to tin-can tourists the Palm Beach councilmen limited the parking of trailers on streets or highways to one hour, prohibited cooking in them during that period...
...rifle-bearing Afghan hillmen. The potentiality of Afghan oil fields is something presumably best known to Inland. In Manhattan last week Seaboard's President John Meston Lovejoy, who is also president of Inland Exploration Co., remarked with restraint that the concession was an opportunity to spend a lot of money. Said cautious President Lovejoy: "This is a concession for exploration as well as for exploitation. . . . No oil testings have ever been made. ... If the agreement goes through it will take years to lay out the territory and test for oil.'' This temperate talk notwithstanding, two facts remained...
...doesn't much matter whether someone fires an academic administrator every now and then. President Conant was quite right when he made the distinction between ousting a professor and getting rid of a president. It will probably do a lot of college presidents good to realize that they don't hold life terms. The old bug-bear of academic freedom doesn't come in to this...