Word: sole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Mr. Knudsen left strike conferences in a huff, still claiming that the C. I. O. branch of United Automobile Workers really wants sole recognition by General Motors. Mr. Knudsen insisted the NLRB, not G. M., must decide whether the U. A. W. of C. I. O. or the U. A. W. of A. F. of L. is in a majority. Robert J. Thomas, C. I. O. headman in U. A. W. also left. Second-stringers on both sides continued to sit in vain with Conciliator James F. Dewey of the Labor Department, who continued to spend...
Says a letter from Publisher Hoffmann: "The sole aim of News From Germany is to further a better understanding of the aspirations, the achievements, and the spirit of Germany; which, I am convinced, will serve the cause of world peace. The receipt of unbiased and accurate information will help readers to form just opinions." But Publisher Hoffmann's information is hardly unbiased or accurate, nor has it the humor, conscious and unconscious, that Commander King-Hall's news-letter has. Sample headlines...
Fortnight after the issue hit London newsstands, 63-year-old Charles Grey Grey announced his resignation (effective some months hence). His sole comment: "Only the directors of Temple Press Ltd. [his publishers], not even C. G. Grey, know why I'm resigning." But British airmen only marveled that the divorce had not occurred sooner...
...comparative safety of London with its 700 inhabitants moved Survivor Hopkins to chronicle his sad saga by the light of a piece of string pushed through a strip of bacon. At night he wrote, by day he hunted for food in the barren city. His sole neighbor, an old lady, lived in the National Gallery. "She heard that it was empty, and wanted to gratify her love of art and lust for possession during the last days that remain to her." She lived on pigeons that fell dead from the Nelson Column, cooking them over a fire of Dutch masterpieces...
...patient preparation matured in a mass meeting in the Chicago Coliseum. John Lewis was ready to move against Armour, second packer in the Big Four. In 17 Armour plants from St. Paul to Los Angeles to Birmingham, Ala. to Milwaukee, the Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee had either been named sole bargaining agent by the NLRB or claimed a majority...