Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the start A. F. of L.'s strategy against Lewis has been to split off C.I.O. unions, undermine him with his rank and file. Only real progress made in that direction has been to make David Dubinsky, head of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, impatient of Lewis' failure to make peace (TIME...
...Brookings Institution, before the annual meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in Manhattan. No mere plaint against labor was Dr. Moulton's argument. It was in fact but the converse of a familiar thesis, that higher wages and shorter hours are necessary to compensate for technological progress. The cause of 1937's slump, said Dr. Moulton, was that there had been not enough increase in productive efficiency to compensate for the raising of wages and the simultaneous lowering of working hours...
...Parliament by Foreign Minister Koki Hirota. It might have been Lord Palmerston speaking, it might have been years ago, but it was actually Mr. Hirota voicing the aspirations of Japan in terms as serene as those used by Queen Victoria's ministers to express their gratification at the progress of Imperialism...
...Wagner-Steagall Bill for Government housing is declared to be a step in the right direction, but only a small step. At the present rate of progress, says the Little Man gloomily, it will take 200 years for Manhattan's slums to be cleared...
...free public lecture, on "Progress in Preventive Medicine," given at the Medical School yesterday afternoon. Dr. Frederick F. Russell, professor of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, gave a detailed analysis of the achievement to date in the field of vaccination and state controlled health measures, and pointed to the particular fields in which there was room for additional work...