Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John L. Lewis, who in years past fought similar fights in his United Mine Workers and now has U. A. W. as his particular problem child, this meant a trip to Milwaukee. Leader Lewis was preceded by Ora Gassaway, long his able lieutenant in the United Mine Workers, and John Brophy, executive director of the C. I. O. Miner Gassaway, explaining that "Mr. Lewis thought I might be of some assistance," delivered a sober warning: "Take my advice. You have got to cut out these political and factional fights...
...biennial convention was approved. Also approved was a resolution to change the name of the union to International Union of United Automobile & Aircraft Workers. Homer Martin got a face-saving concession, the power to suspend any other officers in "emergencies." subject to appeal to the executive board. The problem of who the officers would be was neatly solved by increasing the number of vice presidents by two to make room for Mr. Martin's candidates, promising 30-year-old Detroit Organizer Richard Frankensteen, and President Roland J. Thomas of the Chrysler local. When this arrangement had been approved...
...about evenly split between the two warring groups. The Leftists control the orange groves in the eastern province of Valencia, and thus the principal Spanish export in normal times. But the Rightists own Spain's bread basket, the great granary of the northwest, leaving to Valencia the problem of feeding 40% of Spain's population from her less agricultural provinces...
...issue is plain enough: Does Italy (and Germany) fear a collectivist state on the Mediterranean more than France (and Russia) fear a fascist state on her southern border? Britain, which always is fertile of ideas about governing other countries, has batted out a number of notions on the Spanish problem. The latest school of thought is that the best possible solution is partition, the historical model presumably being Panama, which revolted (with U. S. help) and split off from Colombia...
...already 60,000 Italians fighting in Spain and thoughtful Rightists agree that it will never do for II Duce. who told some of them they were going to Italian East Africa, to bring them home. Settled in Spain, even half the Italian expeditionary force would create a grave agronomic problem. But whether that problem would ever arise: whether the Right will, as its spokesmen declare, achieve the fall of Madrid and a military victory by the end of 1937: whether that would really end the fighting-nobody last week had a crystal ball clear enough to tell...