Word: men
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mailroom clerks stiffened their sinews to grapple with the hundreds of thousands of cards and gifts-from fruitcake and ship models to luggage and buck deer-that stack up every year, the week before Christmas. Secret Service men could infinitesimally relax: Christmastime is a slow season for cranks & crackpots...
...reputation as a labor mediator. Dr. Leiserson stated the case for NLRB about as well as it has been stated. He denied that the Act needed amendment. He reminded the Committee of the conditions that brought about the Act-the use of labor spies, the discrimination against good union men, the tragedies of violence in labor disputes, the old hostility against labor legislation...
From the testimony emerged the picture of the Board's headaches with its own employes-one too zealous, another with a weakness for drink, good men in the wrong positions, some suspicious of their fellow employes, some mixed in obscure political doings, some incompetent but devoted, some clever but unreliable-the same tangled problems of personnel that industry has faced...
French department stores reported Christmas sales about 40% below last year. They were doing a thriving trade, however, in everything wearable, drinkable or eatable that devoted French women thought their men at the front might like. L'Amour is important to morale, and the State made it possible last week for tens of thousands of women to visit their husbands at Christmas. Mothers with evacuated children in the countryside were offered by the French State Railways free trips during the holidays to visit their moppets...
...next game Dudley trimmed Adams 5 to 2 to win the distinction of two wins against one loss. Walt Whitaker, Don Regan, and Bill White scored the points for the out-of-House men, while Doug Anderson accounted for both the Adams tallies...