Word: representer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was a milestone in a 50-year industrial millennium in the Kohler plant. Although Kohler Co.'s sales began to fall off in 1928, it neither laid off men nor cut wages or hours until 1931. Then it cut hours 10%, later wages. Then, too, its workers began...
In 1931 a portly little publisher-politician from Georgia went about the country handing the Solid South to Franklin D. Roosevelt. His name was Clark Howell and his paper the Atlanta Constitution. In 1933 President Roosevelt offered Democrat Howell a fat diplomatic post which he declined on the ground he...
"I warn you that any step you take toward tying our money in any way to any foreign money is a usurpation of the powers and prerogatives of Congress. . . . Your viewpoint and your activities do not represent the best interests of our people, and your acts are certain to provoke...
¶Clifton H. Seaver of Springfield, Mass., wearing dirty white linen knickerbockers, a No. 13 on his sweater, to represent his age: a gold wrist watch, a vacation trip, a bicycle; for beating Sidney Diez of Baton Rouge, 7 games out of 10, in the final of the U. S...
...Meantime she had also telephoned to the heads of the Iron & Steel Institute the union's peace proposals. Big question still at issue was whether the union should, as it demanded, have the right to represent all steel workers in a plant where a majority voted for union representation. Sooner or later it was evident that Miss Perkins was going to sit down with the steelmasters of the U. S.-Grace of Bethlehem, Taylor of U. S. Steel, Weir of Weirton, Girdler of Republic-and try her prowess as a labor peacemaker. Although a secret ballot...