Word: soled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Morning, afternoon & night for four days the tired men met and talked, firmly snagged on the one vital point at issue-John Lewis' demand that G. M. recognize United Automobile Workers as sole representative of all its employes. After the second day the opposing groups rarely saw each other, the Labor leaders remaining in Judge Murphy's office while the G. M. officials huddled around a telephone in the jury room. When they emerged to stretch their legs in the courtroom at the same time, Capital and Labor remained in opposite corners...
Leader Lewis was the first to back down. He offered to settle for sole recognition of his union in the 20 G. M. plants that were closed by strikers. The G. M. spokesmen were variously reported as offering to give him what he wanted in six plants, and in none. As John Lewis' temper wore thin, too, only three bonds held the negotiators together. One was President Roosevelt's insistence on an agreement, delivered in daily telephone calls to Governor Murphy. Another was fear of the public wrath which would fall on whichever side precipitated a breakup...
...soon moved in the set of Mrs. Ernest Simpson and King Edward to an extent which started Mayfair wondering and whispering about whether His Majesty's lady could possibly be a "German agent." In the House of Commons excitable William Gallacher, then as now the sole Communist M. P. (see p. 23), stormed: "[The Ambassador] comes with his hands red with murder!" apropos the execution in Germany of a Communist named Andre. Next the leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, Laborite Major Clement Attlee, signed with 40 other M. P.'s a sharp protest...
...Hinman each sued United Air Lines for $90,000, claiming that its planes flew sometimes as low as five feet above the 72 Hinman acres next to Union Air Terminal, Burbank, Calif. The Hinmans declared that they had sole rights to the "stratum of air superadjacent to and overlying" their land and "extending to such an altitude as the plaintiff may reasonably expect to occupy." Denied by lower courts, the suit was appealed to California's Supreme Court which last week held that there had been no effective precedent and that aircraft should be treated leniently...
...assigned to the candidates may be easily performed in spare time during the day, and there is always enough variety in the work to make it exceedingly interesting. The desire to do a good job is given first consideration and a pure money total is by no means the sole factor in deciding a man's fitness to become a member of the board. It should be especially noted that once an editor, there is an excellent chance at a most attractive salary...