Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard, bad man; we like him better smiling. Dick Powell in a serious revival of his humorous part in "Blessed Event" is a singing, composing orchestra leader faintly reminiscent of a well-known insecticide. Kay Francis as a banker's lonely wife looks too gloomy. Louise Fazenda with her setback coiffure provides some good laughs, while Guy Kibbee and Hugh Herbert are conventional chaperoned husbands...
...unemployed. 2) It saved automobile makers from a shutdown at the peak of their most promising production season in four years. 3 ) It saved 250,000 workmen in automobile plants from losing over $1,000,000 a day in wages. 4) It saved the Roosevelt Administration from a terrific setback to its Recovery plans...
...process of collective bargaining more clearly defined. Labor has adopted the wise course in deciding to consolidate its position, taking advantage of the gains it has already gotten under the NRA instead of bringing on a strike which would have meant suffering to millions and a setback to the industrial progress of the country...
...Steel Union. For a showdown on a question of principle, the Labor Board finally cited him to the Attorney General for failure to permit it to hold an orderly election. Now the case will be settled in court. If Mr. Weir wins it will be a sad setback for Senator Wagner. Budd Manufacturing. Next most vexing case to Senator Wagner concerns Edward Gowen Budd, Philadelphia manufacturer who built up a big business in all-steel automobile bodies and now is be- ginning to make stainless steel streamlined trains. Last November 1,300 of his workers went on strike charging that...
Harvard's first year polo trio received a severe setback Saturday at the hands of the Yale team, 10-4. Fred Ayer at No. 1, and Captain Winmill were hard pressed for the single tallies they garnered during the melees in front of the goal Royall Victor, at back, was one up on his team mates to lead the scoring honors...