Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effect the order did C. I. O. two great favors: 1) guarded against wage slashes which might otherwise follow the wholesale price cuts precipitated last year by unionized U, S. Steel; 2) turned competitive heat upon non-union Little Steel companies, wiping out some of their economic reasons for refusing to sign with...
...Flynn, who used to front for Joe Grundy at the State House. A figure new and interesting to Pennsylvanians was Colonel Carl L. Estes, a Texas publisher who was reportedly in the Pew family oil business (Sun Oil Co.), and who by Governor James's first executive order became an Admiral of the Pennsylvania Navy. Admiral Estes has leased a home in Harrisburg, where the Pews can use a good lookout...
...Olson, who pardoned him], repudiated the class struggle and helped to elect to office a man who stands squarely upon the precepts of capitalism-a champion of private ownership. Before and since you [Tom Mooney] gained your freedom, you have expressed your intention to labor for a better social order. And how have you begun? By registering as a Democrat, as reported by the press...
...Wartime Minister of National Service, onetime Ambassador to the U. S., did not tranquilize the atmosphere when he told British housewives that they ought to put some things away for a bomby day. Not only should they store food; they should also store water in bottles and jugs. In order not to upset the commodity markets, he said, they should buy very slowly and calmly. English housewives are literal-minded. Next day merchants reported sales of canned goods and water jugs falling...
Last week the men who are putting the Hearst publishing empire in order got around to Mr. Hearst's magazines. Quietly knocked on the head was 39-year-old Pictorial Review, which only a year and a half ago boasted a circulation of more than 3,000,000, bigger than any other women's monthly...