Word: preventatively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exploded Steelman Purnell: "What right has the Governor to send troops in to prevent men from working? The Governor's job is to protect men who wish to work. . . . It's gotten so now that a man can't work in this country when he wants...
...Youngstown Sheet & Tube's Frank Purnell had announced the reopening of their plants in the Youngstown district. Picket lines were hastily strengthened, C.I.O. reinforcements summoned from nearby industrial centres. A pitched battle seemed inevitable. To Secretary of Labor Perkins went a plea from John L. Lewis to "prevent this contemplated butchery." Said Mr. Lewis: "I told her that sornewhere there should be a power that could be exercised tonight to restrain this madman Girdler...
...true that the terms of the notices were virtually identical with conditions in plants with C.I.O. contracts and hence acceptable to C.I.O. But as the striking steelworkers promptly pointed out there was nothing except a steel-master's conscience and the fear of John L. Lewis to prevent him from posting new notices any day with new and lower wage scales...
...deprived of Relief even if the Federal Government had to provide 100% of its cost, a moral brake would be placed on spending. Senator Byrnes presented tables to show that the financial condition of States and cities has materially improved since 1933, argued that his requirement would prevent shameless attempts to raid the Federal Treasury. At the White House the President retorted by telling newshawks it was unfair to make communities take a "pauper's oath" to obtain Relief grants...
...Pennsylvania Legislature has already complimented the pair by passing a law to prevent anybody else from being so profitably smart in the future. But dark, curly-haired, bespectacled Lawyer Edelman and round-faced, blue-eyed, dressy Lawyer Creskoff who filed their informations back in 1935, are not worried...