Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks of hearings and haggling, New Dealing Chairman Elbert D. Thomas reported it out exactly the way the White House had recommended. It drew the teeth of the Taft-Hartley Act and reinstated the Wagner Act with a few minor changes. Republicans in committee had tried to offer some amendments, but Thomas' Democratic majority had turned down every one, reporting the bill out on a straight 8-to-5 party vote. Vermont's mild George Aiken commented bitterly: "Might makes right." To Ohio's Robert A. Taft it was "the most highhanded" committee procedure he had ever...
...Buenos Aires' Retiro Park for a mammoth show marking the first anniversary of the purchase of the national railways from their British owners. It was a full-blown Peronista rally, and the speeches had all the flavor of the old oligarch-baiting times. Without bothering to offer proof, Perón's Transport Minister proclaimed that the railways (reported last month to be losing money at the rate of $100 million a year) were now in the black. The boss of the railway unions rose to shout: "If at any time it becomes necessary, the workers will rise...
...Calvary, one of the country's largest Roman Catholic cemeteries, were bargaining for a raise of about 20%-a five-day week for the same wages ($59.40) they now get for a six-day week. Their employers, the trustees of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, offered them a raise of about 3%. The gravediggers turned the offer down, and negotiations came to a stop. On Jan. 13, they went out on strike, and the coffins began to pile up at Calvary. After burial services, the coffins were laid down in shallow uncovered trenches. Last week when...
...study-tours, which NSA sponsors with the cooperation of National Student Unions abroad, offer six to seven weeks of guided travel as well as one to two week periods of free time. Americans will travel in groups of from 10 to 20 together with students from other countries and European student guides...
Though naturally "delighted as any young girl would be" by her invitation and selection as "woman of the year," she turned down the offer to sing in "Tomorrow Is Manana" because she is too busy studying singing, the manager concluded...