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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long ago as 1908, western waterfront employers began to combat incipient labor organizations through local and coastwise associations. Now, in every western port save Tacoma, Wash., and three lesser ports on Puget Sound, four regional associations and the master Shipowners' Association of the Pacific Coast, represent all but a few small companies in continual bickers & dickers with Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union...
...mentally and chronically ill. On the other hand, many people, including pregnant women, go to hospitals when they could be treated just as well at home. Needed, therefore, will be more visiting nurses making rounds of tenements, apartments, private homes, if New York City and its environs are to save on future hospital building...
...Eduard, save up your pence, For Adolf soon will be over the fence. So runs the insolent jingle which Nazi sympathizers among Czechoslovakia's German minority sporadically plaster on Czech frontier barriers. No one need explain to worried Czechs that Eduard is their president, Eduard Benes (pronounced Benesh), that Adolf is their neighbor, Hitler, that the fence is a cup-shaped chain of mountains along the Czech-German border, a chain about the height of Vermont's Green Mountains. Since the Sixth Century this fence has served as a barrier against the eastward push of Teutonic tribes...
...Berlin's anti-Semitism confined to police and mob activity. To all the other repressive anti-Semitic decrees issued since Adolf Hitler rose up to save the German people five years ago, was added a new decree whose simple purpose was to suffocate what is left of Jewish economic life. Main provisions: 1) Jewish concerns will be identified, probably with special signs on the place of business; 2) if one member of the board of a limited company is a Jew, the concern will be Jewish; 3) if one-fourth of the capital is owned by Jews, the company...
...Deal. Nothing delights the Times more than baiting solemn Colonel McCormick's morbidly anti-New Deal Tribune, self-styled "The World's Greatest Newspaper." During the 1936 Presidential campaign, the Tribune each morning grimly tolled off the number of days remaining in which ''to save your country" at the polls. On election "day, the Times, only important Chicago daily supporting Roosevelt, impudently ridiculed the Tribune'?, predictions of doom with a gigantic front-page headline: 52 DAYS TO XMAS...