Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strike to thank Mr. McGrady "on behalf of the people of San Francisco," for his "successful" efforts. But every one knew that this was sheer politeness. The Assistant Secretary had by turns persuaded and pounded tables, until local labor leaders called him Edward Ferocious McGrady. But on the main issue, whether the unions should continue to control the hiring halls (supplying any men they see fit to operators who need seamen or longshoremen), neither side gave any concession He did, however, win a promise that both sides would sit down together and begin negotiations this week...
...false peace which glossed over this bitter and unsettled maritime issue was typical of the situation on the entire main front of organized U. S. Labor. By last week it was clear that the Election, which temporarily obscured Labor's aims and aspirations, was only the starting gun for a Labor march up the avenue opened by the New Deal...
...these, only Major County, up on the Cimarron River near the Kansas border, failed this autumn to vote the Democratic ticket for President and Senator. Last week at Major's county seat of Fairview, which lies on the main line of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., Gerald Vincent Underwood, publisher, and Cass Alonzo Carr, editor of the Fairview Republican, took matters into their own hands. Announced they in their paper...
...Rumanian Carol's visit Czechoslovakian Prague was en fête. Triumphal arches had been erected in the main streets which were decorated with flags and evergreen. Prague's electric works reduced their rates by 35% to insure that the city's illuminations should blaze far into the night. Cardinal Kaspar, head of the Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia, went so far as to permit his Czech flock to eat meat all day Friday. Nothing was lacking to make the reception the sort that Carol most enjoys. There were champagne banquets, boy scouts, a gala opera, hordes...
...main White bombardment opened at 8 a. m., shells dropped into the office of Brown Boveri Co., scaring the charwoman who was awaiting the arrival of the staff. Other shells plunked into the famed Oriental Café in the Puerta del Sol, heart of Madrid. The Ministry of Interior, police headquarters and the French Embassy were all barely missed by screaming shells, but a small one landed in the onetime Royal Palace of Alfonso XIII, now the Palace of the President. Don Manuel Azaña, who fled last month not to Valencia but to Barcelona (TIME...