Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particular he bellowed: "And there's that old scalawag. Where's he in this fight?" The chairman sharply yanked the McGill coattails, whispered that the man in question had switched to their side. Without lowering his voice or blinking, George McGill continued: "Again I say, where is good old Ed? Why, he's with...
...Basic wage & hour disputes are negotiated first nationally, not locally or individually; if these negotiations fail, both sides prefer going to an impartial umpire, whose decision is usually accepted though neither side binds itself beforehand. Local disputes are carried up, through district committees, to a national joint board of the industry. "The objective is to settle locally as many disputes as possible, and if they cannot be so settled, to make the procedure short enough to satisfy the workers . . . long enough to allay the tension." Unauthorized local strikes are frowned on by union higher-ups and are rare...
...Collective agreements rest upon moral force rather than legal compulsion." Neither side wants law to back it up. Exception: wages (but only wages) in the weaving section of the cotton textile industry; in 1934, both sides sought an Act of Parliament which froze rates they had already collectively agreed upon. Cause: chiseling by unorganized employers and weavers...
...year-old Adrian Quist, a fifth year Davis Cupper rated by many as the world's No. 2 amateur; and 19-year-old John Bromwich, a sophomore who caused a sensation in international tennis last year with his either-handed, both-handed racket grip. On the U. S. side was the world's No. 1 amateur, U. S.-English-French-Australian Champion Donald Budge; his doubles partner, Gene Mako; and 20-year-old Robert Riggs, the Los Angeles "quickie" who in two years had jumped from the municipal tennis courts to next-to-top national billing. Unquestionably...
...bear, Henry Fonda got into his fishing boat, went out on the bay looking for Akim with a harpoon gun. When Henry's faithful friend George Raft decided to immolate himself to atone for his evil ways, he steered Akim's schooner into the side of a glacier, where it was crunched beneath icebergs like a toy boat in a studio tank. Even more characteristic of Western traditions are Spawn of the North's womenfolk: Louise Platt, the refined, ladylike girl who learns to love the ruggedness of it all, Dorothy Lamour, appearing in a turtleneck sweater...