Word: mem
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mills and arbitrate their differences with the company afterwards. He even went so far as to suggest that either Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd or Virginia's onetime Governor Harry Flood Byrd act as public arbitrator. His prime stipulation for peace: the workers' right to remain mem bers of the A. F. of L.'s textile union...
...Price Brothers & Co., Ltd., large producers of newsprint. Said he: "I have become convinced that the expressed purposes of the Institute and my efforts to accomplish them have been and are defeated by the unwillingness of members to conform to either the spirit or the terms of their mem- bership agreement...
...Union claims from its member, and hands them over directly to the Union treasury. The Mine Workers wanted the "checkoff" because it would keep their treasury full and save them some $200,000 per year now lost in nonpayment of dues or spent on collectors to round up delinquent mem- bers after payday. Operators had refused this demand because they did not wish to help strengthen financially an organization which overnight might become their bitter foe in a labor...
...Brockway and Mace-Snatcher Beckett last week "from the Parliamentary precincts." Suspended, they might not resume their seats until this week. It was even said that at the next election the Labor Party will' refuse to let Mr. Beckett run again as one of their candidates, so furious were mem bers of that party at his unseemly con duct...
Faculty. At Bennington, the Ph. D. degree will be held as lightly as a secondary school certificate. The college will not demand it of its faculty. "And al though the faculty will necessarily be recruited largely from the younger mem bers of the college teaching profession, there will be appointments of persons . . . outside of academic life." So that its pedagogs will not incline to fustiness, no initial faculty appointment will be for more than three years. The President and trustees will hold a seven-year term of office...