Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court fight, concerning a question on which there was ample room for valid difference of opinion, was lost in the ordinarily self-willed Senate. It was of the greatest significance that last week's battle was lost in a chamber normally more amenable to Administrative wishes...
...charges against Republic Steel simply alleged unfair labor practices. The union did not claim to represent a majority of the workers and the board said nothing about a contract. It ordered the corporation to stop interfering with self-organization of its workers, to disestablish its company unions, to offer reinstatement with back pay to all the estimated 5,000 strikers and to discharge other employes hired after the strike if necessary to make room for them, to post notices of compliance in the five plants affected for 60 days...
...Grand Haven, Mich, last week worry over an adverse NLRB decision was said to have driven General Manager Arthur L. Colten of Kiddie Kover Manufacturing Co. to undue extremes. Last fortnight, Colten was found dying in his bed with a copy of the decision in his hand and a self-inflicted bullet wound in his head...
...time an associate professor at Rensaeller Polytechnic Institute, author in 1933 of "The Great Tradition," a Marxist approach to American literature since 1870, Hicks will be the first self-confessed Communist to obtain any appointment to the Faculty...
...important part of the new curriculum is training in democracy, the central idea in John Dewey's philosophy. One of the chief devices used for this training is student self-government which is carried a good deal further in giving authority and responsibility to pupils than in the more or less wishy-washy system by the same name by which many a traditional U. S. school tries to hoax its pupils into the belief that they run their own affairs. Today one-fifth of the population of Czechoslovakia, some 2,680,000 students-1,832,000 in primary schools...