Word: modeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became president of the infant Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Under his astute guidance, it grew into a prodigious union with 350,000 members, the source of Sidney Hillman's power. "Enemy of the Working Class." He became the model of a labor statesman in a capitalist world. He rejected Marxism, accepting instead the theory that the best way to improve labor's lot is to improve management. With funds of the A.C.W. he pulled many a manufacturer out of bankruptcy. He helped them increase the efficiency of their business. He established industry-wide insurance programs...
Married. Harry Sayles Conover, 34, crown prince of U.S. model peddlers, plugger of "the well-scrubbed American girl"; and Candy Jones (real name: Jessie Wilcox), 22, his well-scrubbed No. 1 blonde cover girl; he for the second time, she for the first; in Hamilton...
Reynolds hopes that the new cheap model will not push the old Reynolds off the market. But shipments of the older model had already fallen off (less than 125,000 will be shipped in August v. 450,000 shipped in June). This, Reynolds thought, was only part of the summer buying sag. Then why the cheaper model? Said Lamb: "The other firms will be making cheaper ones, so why should we wait...
Whoever got the job, things could not get much worse in Chile. Ever since the nitrate market broke in the early '30s, both economic and political conditions had been chaotic. Alessandri's social legislation of the '20s, a model of its time, had proved no panacea. Ineptness and bickering had marked eight years of Popular Front rule; plans to cut up big estates and increase agricultural production had been balked by rightists who still controlled banks and social security funds. The present murderous inflation had spawned a new group of profiteering capitalists, cushioned the old ones...
With his 4,000-odd Protestant minority on the police force, perennially suspicious ,that their 13,500 Catholic colleagues were getting the breaks in salaries and promotions, Chaplain Nesbitt had something to work with. For his model he took the Catholics' 130-year-old Holy Name Society, which maintains a chapter in every U.S. parish and has enrolled most of New York's Catholic cops. In 1937 Chaplain Nesbitt gathered a nucleus of 500 Protestant policemen in the line-up room and put it up to them. That evening the St. George Association was born...