Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opinion which will probably be appealed, Judge Wham drew a line between the unquestioned right to strike and a conspiracy "to prevent production." Labor, he said, was not liable for damages caused by a strike itself, even if an "employer may have to quit business"; but Labor was responsible for damages inflicted by "violent and other unlawful conduct." This liability was not confined to physical damage but included the use of "unlawful means" to prevent a company "from conducting its business...
...father and a Norwegian mother, Author Lundberg got his start as a police reporter in purple days of Chicago gangdom. That road led to United Press and finally to the New York Herald Tribune as a Wall Street reporter. His toughest assignment was the 1929 crash. In 1934 he quit reporting to write Imperial Hearst, which was successful enough to maintain him and his Vassar-graduate wife in a bookish Manhattan apartment. With the help of General Johnson and Secretary of Interior Ickes, who used the title for the theme of his attack on monopolies, America's 60 Families...
Afraid that many civil servants would have to quit their jobs or die of malnutrition because the 50% depreciation of Nicaragua's currency has raised living costs beyond their reach, drastic Finance Minister Benito Ramirez last week doubled the pay of all Government employes, including himself...
...annual addition to the payroll that shorter hours would entail. In place of the present contract the company suggests the P. 0. take over the system, pay it rent, "considerably less than $10,000 a mile." Last week's deadline, when the company threatened to quit, came and passed. The P. 0., which has the company under contract for another six months, is confident that it can make a better deal, sat tight, said "the tubes are operating as usual, according to contract...
Died. George Edward Akerson, 48, bulky, breezy onetime pressagent and secretary to Herbert Hoover who quit his White House post in 1931 to take a $30,000-per-year vice-presidency in Paramount Publix Corp.; two hours after receipt of a holiday telegram from the ex-President; of heart disease; in Manhattan...