Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spirit. Too often they have disregarded the true facts and the interests of distributors and consumers. . . . They have contended that their guiding motive has been the elimination of secret discrimination, fraud and waste. ... It is clear that their dominant aim was to preserve uniformity in price structure and to maintain relatively high prices to relieve themselves of burdensome and competitive devices...
...attempt by interference, influence, restraint, favor, coercion, or lockout, or by any other means, to impair the rights of employees guaranteed under section four (collective bargaining) or to refuse to recognize and deal with representatives of his employees, or to fail to exert every reasonable effort to make and maintain agreements with such representatives concerning wages, hours and other conditions of employment...
What is a "favor?" How can an employer's mind be held up to scrutiny and a discovery made as to whether he failed "to exert every reasonable effort" to make an agreement with his employees or to maintain it once he had agreed? To determine the motive, the board is to have power to compel the submission of all books, papers, data, and figures and to subpoena anybody in the United States in any jurisdiction and summon them to Washington by telegraph or letter and compel attendance...
Hoping to maintain their record of only one defeat, the Freshman Swimmers will meet the Yale cubs in the latter's pool this evening. As both teams have a long series of victories to their credit, a very close and hard-fought battle may be expected...
...scarcely wise, if this legion were kept in a clamorous state, to permit it to grow. But that is apparently what Mr. Ely has done. If Mr. Gill can maintain his present rate of acceleration, his goose will become a pretty unwieldy and a pretty lively bird...