Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...differentials, narrow others. Most important to G. M. and both U. A. W.s, the C. I. O. union in effect got exclusive recognition in 42 G. M. plants.* In return it pledged itself to prevent wildcat strikes, help G. M. through a smooth 1940 production year. "We hope," said Mr. Knudsen, whose new models were delayed three or four weeks, "it will be so." That it probably will not be so, a C. I. O. union official promptly indicated. "Our struggles . . . are not ended. We must win new and improved conditions for General Motors' many thousands of production workers...
Said the perspiring Ambassador, before opening discussions on the Tientsin issue: "Mr. Arita, would you mind if I take off my coat...
...last week Hachiro Arita had made things so extra hot for Sir Robert that a French cartoonist, in a picture of the lonely parleys, showed Britain's Ambassador not only coatless, but pantless, shirtless, shoeless-stark naked. Sir Robert: "And if I give you my disgusting banknotes?" Mr. Arita: "Then I shall return your honorable pants...
...Tientsin issue in Tokyo, he last week gave way on the point which originally caused the Japanese Army to blockade Tientsin's foreign Concessions. Last April 9, Cheng Shi-kang, manager of the Japanese-controlled Tientsin customs, was shot while watching others shot in the film Gunga Din. Mr. Cheng was neither the first nor the last Japanese hireling to be assassinated, but he was no ordinary puppet. Most of the decrepit Chinese who have sold out to the enemy command little affection and no respect, have no influence even with the Japanese who use them. But Puppet Cheng...
Leader of the House of Commons rebels was no Jack Garner, but cherubic, rebellious Conservative Winston Churchill, who, when stirred, is the House's most effective speaker. Last week Mr. Churchill let himself go in the most savage speech he has made since the post-Munich debate. The occasion was a Government motion for adjournment. Labor, about as strong as the Republicans were in Congress in 1936, offered an amendment that the House reassemble in three weeks instead of two months. Last year, when Parliament adjourned (after a reassuring speech by Prime Minister Chamberlain), it reassembled to be faced...