Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possibilities of Joe Johnson, who informed them that he had once been photographed perched on Primo Camera's arm, the reporters and newsmen gleefully learned that the Willard was serving them free lunch and liquor. They ate in shifts, later took turns in a poker game, for any opening of the locked door might mean the biggest labor story since the strike in "Little Steel." Some papers kept private lines open to the Willard, and all press services kept a running story on their wires...
...Green, who realizes this all too well, is willing to take back the twelve suspended C. I. O. unions but wants the dual unionism created by the new C. I. O. unions settled by subcommittees before admission. Since this point would seem to be open to horse trading, the more optimistic lieutenants in both C. I. O. and A. F. of L. remained cheerful. But the two commanders quit their last meeting grim and glum, merely announcing that they would report back-without recommendations-to their respective negotiating committees when they reassembled December 21. "Is it the status quo ante...
...four Houses each. Each division will have bouts for its own four teams each week to determine the division champion. At the end of each week, the winning team in one group will meet the champion of the other, and at the end of the season an inter-House open tournament will be held...
...inclusion of prominent alumni in a program of speakers that already includes Mayor LaGuardia and Thomas E. Dewey was decided upon. A public forum on the open versus the closed shop in the University was planned for January. Robert Watt, Massachusetts Secretary of the A. F. of L. will speak for the closed shop, and a prominent employer from Boston will be sought to present the other point of view...
...dining-hall workers. The suddenness of this activity and the fact that it coincides with a drive for unionization make the gestures look much like barn-locking after the horse is stolen. Thus caught napping at first base Harvard must find out why its wage policy leaves the University open to union drives, and whether or not, in fact, it has an up-to-date wage policy...