Word: signed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which they may need for capital expansion, or to pay debts, or as insurance against lean years. When Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee managed to carve this tax down to a vestigial nubbin of 2½^% last year, Franklin Roosevelt was so angry he would not sign the bill...
...their own situation; six-weeks of shut-down had helped them to get rid of half of their coal piles and any longer stoppage would only cost them money which they could ill afford to lose. But some operators still held out. Many a potent mine owner, ready to sign at union terms, accused the holdouts of stalling in hope of provoking an industrial war in which U. M. W. might be licked...
...sides were still wrangling when the time limit set by the President expired. Early in the morning as the meeting broke up U. S. Conciliator John Roy Steelman issued a statement: ". . . As Government representatives, we are asking that such companies and associations as are in agreement with the [union] sign contracts and begin operations immediately ... to relieve the grave crisis facing the nation. ... It is the purpose of the Federal Government to render every possible assistance...
Miners and operators alike knew what this meant: Franklin Roosevelt not only endorsed John Lewis' demands for a union shop*but invited operators and their district associations to break ranks, sign as a public duty. If they refused, the Administration would back John Lewis in the resultant...
Last remaining big diplomatic job before Britain and France complete their Peace Front (labeled "Encirclement" in Germany) is to sign up Soviet Russia. After weeks of bargaining in secret, both the British and Russians made public their positions, which proved to be not so far apart as pessimistic Britons had feared...