Word: quids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mine Workers had signed contracts with 22 of the Harlan County, Ky. coal operators many of whom had been scheduled to stand trial for violating the Wagner Act. Mr. Green, who has been trying to sign up the operators with his rival Progressive Miners of America, charged that the quid pro quo was a "brazen and unlawful" deal arranged by Mr. Lewis under which NLRB would withdraw its charges against the operators, the Department of Justice would quash its criminal indictments. This was promptly denied by U. M. W., NLRB, and the Department of Justice...
Author Johnston does not charge that any political quid pro quo was promised to Jimmy's clients. But "some corporations which have given Jimmy insurance have been lucky; some corporations which have denied him insurance have been unlucky...
...adequate for several hundred years; 2) that the U. S. could not morally prevent the distribution of a gas with important laboratory and medical uses (notably in oxygen tents); 3) that for the 17,900,000 cu. ft. Germany will receive in 1938 there will be a formal quid pro quo-two naval observers will ride on each German Zeppelin using the gas, thus get valuable training in lighter-than-air navigation which the U. S., with all its big dirigibles wrecked or grounded, no longer provides...
...society almost totally governed by the law of the quid pro quo, it is gratifying to see men going out of their way to serve the public interest without hope of reward. It has meant a great deal of work on the part of Dr. McKhann and the other doctors whom he has persuaded to speak. It is not easy for a specialist to make himself clear to a lay audience, let alone make himself popular. It has called for laborious preparation as well as the sacrifice of a Sunday afternoon. Yet the success of the series is obvious from...
...Quid Pro Quo? From coast to coast Labor and Industry perused the text to see whether great General Motors Corp. or the militant C. I. 0. of Mr. Lewis had taken a licking...