Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Impressed by this large-scale demonstration of his power was Secretary-General Vicente Lombardo Toledano of the year-old CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers), a hot-eyed little industrial unionist who likes to be compared with John L. Lewis. CTM's Toledano was one big step ahead of CIO's Lewis in that the employers had voluntarily formed a syndicate to bargain collectively under Mexico's 1931 Labor Law. Negotiations were stalled when the employers stuck flatly at the Oil Workers' demands: a 40-hour week instead of 44, a boost in minimum wages from roughly...
...represented at all in the 1937 Academy is Britain's greatest R. A., bearded, talented Augustus John. A steady contributor and a potent moneymaker for many years, Artist John has been too sick the past year to do any painting at all. In his honor Sculptor Barney Scale submitted a portrait bust whose bearded dignity was little spoiled by the fact that a prankster's lighted cigaret left in the mouth burned a spot that made Artist John look as though he were suffering from a virulent cold sore...
Claiming that there was no immediate danger of a general European war on a large scale, Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney professor of History, gave the fourteenth and final lecture Wednesday night in the series sponsored by the "Guardian" and broadcast over WAAB. His topic was "A Gilmpse of Europe...
...days of Roosevelt II. At that time the public was roused to a white fury by the ruthless tactics of a predatory monopoly. What that age failed to see was that John D. Rockefeller had merely exploited an historical imperative. Standard Oil was the prototype of all modern large-scale industrial enterprises. In that very real sense John D. Rockefeller was the father of Big Business. He happened to have done it in oil. Had he been younger and living in Pittsburgh instead of Cleveland it might have been steel, or in Chicago it might have been meat...
HENRY OF NAVARRE-Marcelle Vioux- Dutton ($3.50). Well-spiced biography of Henry IV, saluting the talents and good luck which enabled him to survive the machinations of his mother-in-law. Catherine de Medici, the rigors of his large-scale lovelife, overexposure to Catholic armies...