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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strike against General Motors Corporation was not actuated by any fundamental causes that affected, in an important degree, the welfare of its workers. I am convinced that this is an unprejudiced statement of fact. ... As is very generally recognized, working conditions, including the wage scale and the hours of work, in the automotive industry and in General Motors, are such that the automobile worker stands as the most favored of all workers in American industry. . . . Then what was the real objective [of the strike] ? . . . The purpose was to obtain the maximum possible recognition, carrying with it the greatest degree...
...this shrewd bit of foresight. Outlawing price discrimination and many another favor long demanded by the country's big buyers, the Robinson-Patman Act is fundamentally anti-chainstore legislation. Sure enough, in its efforts to retain at least a measure of the advantages of large-scale buying, A. & P. was soon enmeshed in Federal Trade Commission proceedings, dragging in a number of ifs suppliers, who are equally liable under...
...English hunting stable" and after a brief taste of the prevailing moral strictness he sailed for home. Between trips he had asked Isabel to marry him, had been put off only because of violent opposition from her mother. This time she said yes. Then began Isabel's large-scale wire-pulling which resulted in Burton's moving up through consular appointments until he came to Damascus, whence he was recalled for his blunt criticism of a cold-blooded Turkish governor, the ruthless usury of rich Jews, the intrigues of missionaries. His appointment at Trieste was his last...
According to the French report, Ethiopian indignation spreading in ever-widening ripples from Addis Ababa has generated native "passive resistance" on a large scale, with food now growing scarce in Italian garrison towns as Ethiopians stubbornly refuse to sell. Agents of the British Secret Service are doing all they can in Ethiopia to further and foment such native discontent, according to the French Secret Service reports, and Ethiopians are being incited to assassinate Italians...
Desiring to probe scientifically into the emotional susceptibilities of unmarried women. Psychologist Raymond Royce Willoughby of Brown University decided that the best way to get information was to ask questions. He made up a list of 40 queries, 25 from the Thurstone Personality Schedule, seven from the Root introversion scale, eight added by Willoughby. Samples: "Are you self-conscious in the presence of superiors?" "At a reception do you avoid meeting the important person present?" "Are you afraid of falling when you are on a high place?" "When on vacation do you enjoy yourself better in a quiet place...