Word: scraps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scrap of Paper." Pittsburgh's Democratic Mayor David Lawrence, a friend of labor, wrung his hands, took a plague-on-both-your-houses stand. He charged that the Duquesne company was "suffering from a hardening process that a monopoly always suffers," said the union was "ill-advised." Then he acted...
...welfare was involved. One minute before George's deadline, Judge Walter P. Smart, a Democrat, forbade the strike, ordered top officials of the company's complicated hierarchy* to sit down with George. But the injunction only postponed the showdown. George called the injunction a mere "scrap of paper," struck anyhow...
...A.F.L. and C.I.O. bumped heads again in runoff elections at the Oak Ridge, Tenn. atomic-energy plants. Both were left groggy; the collision settled little in their scrap to organize Southern labor...
Leader of the attack on the proposed canon was round-faced Rt. Rev. Wallace E. Conkling, Bishop of Chicago. Cried he: "We must recognize human nature but not yield to it ..." The bishops, seeming to agree with Chicago's Conkling, voted 65-to-44 to scrap the report. But that night a special five-man committee worked until 2 a.m. on a new proposal...
...next Council is not to be neutralized by a wave of non-confidence growing out of its continued denial of the democratic process, it must scrap the present plan of nomination-appointment and substitute a system of free election of representatives. It is generally conceded that the Houses provide a more cohesive group of elective units that do the classes, thus each of the Houses and Dudley should be alotted two representatives, to be chosen by open election. The incoming Sophomore class would be represented by six men, to be chosen from the Yard on the same plan...