Word: postmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that pledge thousands & thousands of NRA volunteers were getting millions & millions of U. S. consumers' signatures throughout the land last week. Club women, Boy Scouts, society girls, political ward heelers, postmen, newspaper circulation solicitors, even school children went from door to door, reciting little set speeches about "putting more men to work and increasing buying power." Most householders quickly agreed to do their buying at Blue Eagle shops but few of them pretended to comprehend the economics of the campaign. Here & there an oldtime "rugged individualist" loudly refused to go along. By last week the following Big Names...
Meanwhile throughout the land there was a great scraping of pens and scratching of heads over President Roosevelt's temporary blanket code. To 5,000,000 employers postmen delivered 5,000,000 blank copies of this man-to-man "partnership" code for upping wages, reducing working hours, increasing purchasing power faster than prices. Thousands of employers signed the agreement quickly, heedlessly, sprinted to the post office to collect their free allotment of "NRA Member-We Do Our Part" advertising material. To each employer was given one large Blue Eagle placard, two small ones, five large square stickers, ten small...
...Chamber Finance Committee a budget squabble seethed hotter every day. erupted on the Sabbath. Deputies vowed they would not stomach Papa Cheron's proposed $213,000.000 of increased taxes and $208,000,000 of economies (TIME, Jan. 23). French postmen threatened to strike if their pay is axed. French veterans sent delegations to Premier Paul-Boncour pleading the "sanctity" of their pensions. Meanwhile the French Taxpayers' Union threatened a "tax strike" unless just such economies as cutting post-men's salaries and veterans' pensions are made. About the only cheerful message Papa Cheron received last week...
...postmen who unwittingly touched off Mr. de Valera, much as a child playing with matches might happen to light a skyrocket. The head of the Postal Workers' Union is worthy William Norton. Worthy William is also leader of the Free State's small but vital Labor Party whose seven seats in the Dail have held the balance of power. Recently President de Valera decided to cut civil servants' salaries, notably postmen's. As a politician Mr. Norton could see some sense in this but as head of the Postal Workers' Union he could...
...Postmen got their big surprise when Worthy William declared on the second day after his midnight "break" with President de Valera over salaries, that he and his Labor Party will support the Government during the campaign "because of Mr. de Valera's splendid stand on the national issue!" Laborites, continued Mr. Norton, "believe in meeting and beating external aggression, whether military or economic." They believe, that is, in President de Valera's refusal to pay land annuities to Great Britain, a refusal which has provoked drastic British trade reprisals (TIME, July...