Word: refrains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Said the code: "No employe and no one seeking employment shall be required as a condition of employment to join any company union or to refrain from joining, organizing or assisting a labor organization of his own choosing...
...Reporters earning more were classed as "professionals," were not made subject to the provisions. 3) Fixed a 40-hr. week and a minimum hourly pay of 40? for all mechanical workers. 4) Guaranteed to employes the right of collective bargaining; guaranteed that no employe be required to join or refrain from joining any organization, as a condition of employment. Meanwhile staff writers of eight Philadelphia and Camden newspapers, not at all pleased with being classed as "professionals," drew up a list of objections, appointed Andrew McClean Parker, star reporter for David Stern's Philadelphia Record, to present their demands...
Meanwhile the A. N. P. A. had incurred the wrath of various publishers by its advice to them fortnight ago to refrain from adopting the President's blanket code. The A. N. P. A.'s reason: newspaper publishing "is not an industry but an enterprise of such peculiar importance as to be especially provided for in the Constitution of the U. S. . . . whose independence must be jealously guarded from any interference which can lead to or approximate censorship...
...thing that most students heard about particularly before they came was President Lowell. Twelve mentioned the Collection of Glass Flowers in the University Museum, nine the College Library, and eight that Harvard students enjoyed themselves more than anyone else. Four would be wits could not refrain from mentioning the Massachusetts accent...
...extended right arms in the Nazi salute, cheered wildly, had to be hushed into silence. Mindful of strictures caused by the audience's bellowing ''Deutschland uber Alles" after the first post-War Festival in 1924, officials distributed printed slips stating: "Our leader wishes the audience to refrain at the close of the opera from singing 'Deutschland uber Alles' and the 'Horst Wessel' song [Nazi anthem] or indulging in any other kind of patriotic demonstration, in respect for the works of the master himself...