Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...president of A. F. of L.'s Progressive Mine Workers, bitterly proclaim that the Wagner Act and NLRB decisions had put thousands of Progressive miners under the jurisdiction of John Lewis' United Mine null They read of Roosevelt Son-in-law John Boettiger, publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, bitterly protesting an NLRB decision, but stating he would take no further action because he did not want to jeopardize his fine relations with the American Newspaper Guild. They heard talk of an NLRB "goon squad," of the Board having relations with a union of its own employes, which...
...Fortnight ago, Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes watched with bright red face while Gridiron Club members portrayed him as Donald Duck, the frenzied squawker. Last week, "Honest Harold"* engaged General Hugh Johnson in debate in Newark, said: "We are both contesting for the post of Donald Duck of Public Affairs...
...know whether the quarterback wants you to carry the ball or to run interference. Sometimes the whole team wants to call the signals. .. . My office [Federal Security Administrator] is only an epithet away from the Interior Department and a stone's throw from the Post Office Department...
...refuse to go home for Christmas." From Canada arrived seven tons of Christmas presents for the British evacues. Up in Scotland the heir presumptive to the throne, Princess Elizabeth, received a dollar bill from "an American child named Elizabeth" who wanted to help evacues, promptly sent it along by post. Her Royal Highness and Little Sister Princess Margaret Rose Christmas-shopped eagerly in "a sixpenny store somewhere in Scotland...
Included in the discussion will be a study of the effects of war on international balance of payments, on the distribution of gold and on commercial policy; repercussions on agriculture; methods of finance in the war and post-war periods; effects of war upon the distribution of income and wealth; trade unionism, money and real wages and employment in war times; and, finally, transition to peace...