Word: sat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deficit for the first half of 1938, they moved to slash their greatest single operating cost. Notification was sent to railway unions that the roads would cut wages 15% effective July 1. Under the Railway Labor Act of 1926, preliminary horse trading thereupon began. Unions and management sat down together in Chicago, soon came to loggerheads. This automatically passed their dispute to the three-man National Mediation Board...
Grim-faced in Chicago last week sat Board Chairman Dr. William Morris Leiserson, his fellow members, Otto Sternoff Beyer and George Cook. Grim also was the Pennsylvania's H. A. Enochs, chairman of the committee of 15 representing the railroads, which maintained, as they had from the first, that a wage reduction was "necessary, justified, and inevitable." Grimmest of all were President George Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association (775,000 union men) and President Alexander F. Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (150,000 members). Labormen Harrison and Whitney, despite a quarrel that had them scowling...
When the German army crossed the Austrian border last March, incorporated Austria into the Reich, OE3AH sat at his radio apparatus in Schloss Sonnberg filling his log with records of the short-wave contacts he was making for a high score in an international DX contest. A week after the contest closed, a London Exchange Telegraph dispatch reported that Archduke Anton von Habsburg, brother-in-law of Rumania's King Carol, had been arrested and sent to a concentration camp because of the discovery of a "secret radio station" in his home. That news (despite prompt newspaper denials...
Davis Cup Challenge Round (Sat. 2:15 p.m., 4:30 p.m.; Sun. 3 p.m.; Mon. 2:30 p.m., 5 p.m., CBS). Between U. S. Tennists Donald Budge, Gene Mako, Robert Riggs, Australians Adrian Quist, John Bromwich, at the Germantown Cricket Club; described by Sportscaster Ted Husing...
National Rifle and Pistol Matches (Sat. 12 noon, MBS). Sharpshooters compete for the Myron T. Herrick Trophy at Camp Perry, Ohio...