Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could pay Mr. Lewis' union workers all that he asked. And Mr. Lewis had seen that if the badly overexpanded coal industry could charge high prices, Labor could demand and get a slice of the profits. Only trouble was that from the standpoint of maintaining coal prices, the Soft Coal Code went to pieces some six months ago. Three weeks ago meeting in Washington miners and operators amicably agreed that: "the operators are in no position to make definite commitments for wages, hours and conditions of employment...
Last week at NRA's deathbed Mr. Lewis and the operators agreed that this private NRA-AAA for soft coal was an easy way out for them all. Only objectors were Southern coal operators, traditionally nonunion, low. price sellers who were always dissatisfied with their treatment under NRA. They wanted to continue negotiations to avoid a strike. Last week Mr. Lewis and the Northern operators, who want price-fixing, ganged up. They outvoted the Southerners, 44-to-9, to suspend all negotiations, i.e. have a strike June 17. By this means they figured Congress would be bludgeoned into passing...
...opening day, President Roosevelt from Washington radioed that he hoped to get out to San Diego's show this summer. Following the Presidential address, the lights went on. ''Chicago went in for brilliant glitter," San Diego's newshawks had observed. "San Diego will aim at soft glow...
Under the soft glow of colored lights playing on bowers of palm and eucalyptus trees, a comfortable but by no means spectacular crowd of 25,000 began to see the fair sights in earnest. In the Palace of Science was many a 20th Century industrial gadget and the original gold spike with which Leland Stanford joined the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads in 1869. In the Ford Bowl was playing the San Diego Symphony, to be followed throughout the summer by orchestras from Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and the 250-voiced Mormon Tabernacle Choir from Salt Lake...
...tabloid New York Daily Mirror. While his neighbor Daily News was filling every editorial page for a week with angry philippics and cartoons against the Supreme Court, Editor Brisbane happily buried NRA with a scant half-column editorial. Then he got down to subjects much nearer his soft old heart -babies and gorillas. In a resounding editorial on the Dionne quintuplets' first birthday, he pointed the inevitable Brisbanal moral...