Word: m
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Recognition in eleven other plants is subject to the outcome of employe elections, which G. M. has petitioned NLRB to hold. If NLRB in the G. M. elections follows a precedent laid down last week for employe voting in Chrysler and Briggs (bodies), Homer Martin's union may yet get a foothold. For, instead of holding the elections on a company-wide basis, as C. I. O. asked, the Labor Board called for voting plant-by-plant. General Motors, Chrysler and others thus would have to deal with C. I. O. in some shops...
With outrage he rejected Liberal Leader Sinclair's suggestion that had Parliament been in session earlier, Czecho-Slovakia might have been saved. "I'm not going to comment on that suggestion. I'm just going to leave it in its full beauty...
This was too much for young, hardworking Conservative Ronald Cartland, member for King's Norton, part of Mr. Chamberlain's native Birmingham, who has defended the Prime Minister in many a speech. "Profoundly disturbed," he did what no young M. P. is supposed to do: criticized his Party's leader on the floor. Blurting out with evident sincerity but without much coherence against Mr. Chamberlain's "jeering pettifogging party speeches," he said all year he had had to dispel to his constituents the "absurd impression" that the Prime Minister had dictatorial ambitions, would find it more...
...Just as mortals suffer differently from the immortal gods, so you have a different view from me of Parliamentary debates. You hear too little, and I hear too much. ... If by microphone amplification we were able to make M. P.s' words more audible, it might be that you would overhear things which would destroy your ingenuousness...
...morning of March 21, 1918, a heavy German bombardment opened a vast offensive designed to break between the French and British armies where they joined in the devastated regions of the Somme. Gas soon shrouded the British batteries and their fire ceased. A little before 9 a. m. masses of German troops released from the Eastern Front poured through the fog toward General Cough's British-battalion after battalion, column after column, complete with field bakeries, ammunition trains, medical units, until more than 1,000,000 men were in motion, and advancing columns stretched back 45 miles behind...