Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers' appeal from a Circuit Court of Appeals injunction which ended an Apex Hosiery workers' sit-down strike in Philadelphia last June (TIME, July 5). If the lower court decision is upheld, sit-down strikes in industries in interstate commerce can hereafter be stopped by injunctions...
...Hundreds of adults were shot down by planes furiously strafing the streets. Three days later Leftist bombers were over Rightist held Saragossa in turn, blew up a munition dump. Elaborately Leftist propagandists explained that this was not retaliation. Because their strength depends entirely on their hold on the populous lower classes, Leftist strategists have scrupulously avoided bombing civilian centres...
Lately Brazilian exchange has weakened sharply, the milreis falling to 17.7 on the dollar last week. Observers have suggested that this was done deliberately by the Brazilian Government as an attempt to stabilize internal coffee prices and lower world prices. As recently as last fortnight Fernando Costa, rich Sao Paulo planter who is currently president of D. N. C. declared that D. N. C.'s crop control would continue. Last week, however, the Brazilian Government tired of playing Santa Claus, announced not only that production will no longer be limited but that the Brazilian coffee export tax will...
...Caldwell admittedly focused their attention and their camera on the poor-white and shanty-nigger side of Southern life, thus present a picture heavily weighted with misery, unrelieved by contrasting views of more prosperous levels. They lay themselves open to charges by patriotic Southerners that a similar investigation of lower-stratum existence in Chicago, Pittsburgh, Detroit, might produce equally humiliating results. Meanwhile, You Have Seen Their Faces stands as eye-witness evidence that there are indeed many U. S. citizens ill-clad, ill-nourished and ill-housed...
...received a grade of 72 or below in a scale ranging from 70 to 82 should not expect to sing in any concert this year. It was hinted that this might be the initial measure toward the eventual separation of the club into upper and lower groups...