Word: partings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. and A. F. of L. last week gave a practical demonstration of trade-union trading. A. & P. signed A. F. of L. contracts covering its Washington and Chicago stores, prepared to follow suit elsewhere. A. F. of L.'s part of the bargain: to oppose Representative Wright Patman's pending bill to tax big A. & P. and many a lesser store chain out of existence...
Election Day in the U. S. is followed by wash day. Dirty linen aired in campaigns, or kept out of sight until afterward, goes into the tub and comes out through the wringer. Last week saw political laundries worked overtime. Most notable part of the week's wash was another big indictment by New York City's crusading paladin, District Attorney Tom Dewey (see p. 13). Elsewhere...
Train wrecking is only one of their stratagems. For the most part they organize "thieving parties" to carry off rails and telephone poles. Some 200 farmers near Paoting, 90 miles south of Peiping, devote two nights a week to demolition work. In one night they can tear up and hide ten rails, chop down 28 poles...
...drastically changed. Pressed by Germany to remold" Czechoslovakia along totalitarian lines, the Government, five days before the session met. ordered all parties supporting it to dissolve, join one big State Party for National Unity. The Czech Agrarian and Czech National Socialist groups, the Fascist National League and part of the Czech People's Catholic Party complied. The minority Socialists, Communists and dissident Catholic deputies did not. Pending punishment for or forgiveness of their recalcitrance, they were allowed to sit as a Labor Opposition...
Autonomous status for the province of Slovakia was provided by a bill which the Chamber passed and the Senate will approve this week. The Chamber likewise approved an autonomy measure for the third part of the federated Republic, Carpatho-Ukraine (formerly Ruthenia). Meanwhile, Polish and Hungarian bands, still hoping to split the province between their nations, last week crossed its borders and carried on terrorist attacks against the Government...