Word: moving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...move which may temporarily check the month's old drive of the A.F. of L. to organize kitchen employees, University officials will refuse to grant the union rights of exclusive bargaining agents, it was believed last night...
...with the Fascist occupation of the Balearic Islands and Sardinia there has been created an effective check against the sending of French transports to Africa. In the next war, McKay emphasized, small, militarized units must move at great speed. Mussolini's forces will have little difficulty in seizing French possessions on the African coast before the republic can move troops for defense...
...revolt. One strike early in the week was quickly discontinued, but the suspension of four of its leaders immediately brought on another outbreak. In Lansing, Fisher Body workers reached the point of taking a strike vote but direct pressure from U. A. W. President Homer Martin helped kill the move. Adding to the workers' discontent have been the grinding negotiations for a new G. M. contract. After a five-month wrangle at the council table G. M. and the union negotiators finally agreed to a 15-page document. Fortnight ago the document was submitted to union delegates from...
With sausage suitcase, easel and the iron-tipped cane that he bitterly called "my buttonhook," 'Ennry would frequently move into a brothel, stay there several months, painting most of the time. In the mid-90s 'Ennry began to drink seriously. A great artist but no gourmet, he liked to swig a mixture of Scotch whiskey, rum, absinthe and cheap brandy. Paris dandies of his day frequently carried sword canes; the Vicomte de Toulouse-Lautrec's cane held liquor. In 1899 he was confined in a sanatorium as an alcoholic, was led out in the company...
...Ladies' Garment Workers Union, explained that although a few A. F. of L. as well as C. I. O. unions supported Brookwood, these unions, conducting their own classes in industrial centres, had decided to abandon Brookwood until Labor united, made it Labor's "official" college. Meanwhile, no move will be made to sell the $115,000 Katonah estate...