Word: signed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What applies to Inland Steel must apply to everybody else including the H. J. Heinz Co. and Mr. Girdler and Republic Steel with whom S. W. O. C. had not even been able to reach an oral agreement. Mr. Girdler's repeated insistence that he would never sign an agreement with the "irresponsible, racketeering" C. I. O. unless forced to, seemed on its way to a final test. But three days after its Inland ruling, the NLRB gave Mr. Girdler something more immediate to worry about. In a bristling 60,000-word decision, the board held...
...elderly couple who gave their names as Mr. & Mrs. Will Hebner moved into a farmhouse about seven miles from the dusty little town of Pocahontas, Ark. Most conspicuous feature of the Hebner ménage was a large sign which said NO VISITORS WANTED. Pocahontas townsfolk took the hint until last winter, when both Hebners ceased to be seen and a flock of buzzards was observed wheeling over their establishment. Neighbors then found that the most conspicuous feature of the interior of the Hebner menage was a man's corpse lying in the storm cellar. The corpse-apparently several...
...daughter of a Wisconsin pioneer and onetime superintendent of Kenosha's schools. Mrs. Bradford has written a salty, widely-read autobiography,* is equally famed in Kenosha for her knitting. Clicking her knitting needles faster & faster, Mrs. Bradford marshaled her troops. When Legionnaires got 275 high-school students to sign a petition asking for R. O. T. C., Mrs. Bradford's group got a larger number to petition the Board of Education for a course in hog-calling. One day, to the astonishment of Kenosha's labor leaders, the Legionnaires quoted A. F. of L.'s William...
...booth on the campus, sold pennies to all comers. First purchaser ($5 worth) was Rensselaer's 59-year-old president, neat, energetic Dr. William Otis Hotchkiss, onetime farmer, geologist, consulting engineer and chairman of the Wisconsin State Highway Commission. Said sage Dr. Hotchkiss: "A sure sign of spring. . . . I think it is a laudable purpose for the students to be tax conscious...
...Francisco, American Federation of Actors tried to sign up Siamese Twins Daisy & Violet Hilton. Daisy said yes. Violet said no. At last Violet gave in. Puzzled the Federation could not decide whether to charge single dues or double...