Word: soling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work were too heavy. Last August the plant for the first time laid off men. Almost at once a local A. F. of L. union was established in the plant, followed, a month later, by a company union. Fortnight ago the A. F. of L. union demanded: 1) the sole right to represent all workers, 2) an increase of minimum wages from 40? to 65? an hour, 3) a reduction of working hours from 40 to 30 per week...
...Democrats came into power grateful Chairman Farley made him secretary to the Radio Commission. In addition, the Herald Tribune reported, with a letter from "General" Farley to prove it, Secretary Pettey, while drawing Federal pay, retained his job as No. 1 radio arranger for the Democratic Party and sole booking agent for Democratic speakers...
...legs in a suitcase left at King's Cross Station which proved to be the legs of the Brighton torso. As he went to work Sir Bernard Spilsbury preserved the Sherlock Holmes tradition of keeping mum, but he had his Dr. Watson in Chief Detective Pelling. The sole clue seemed to be that both legs and torso were wrapped in the same sort of brown wrapping paper and on the paper around the torso appeared the letters "f o r d.'' Chief Detective Pelling titillated the Empire by as much as admitting that Sir Bernard Spilsbury...
...take sole responsibility for the Dresden disaster," said he. "The waters of the Karmsund are difficult to navigate, but I have piloted here for more than 30 years. . . . The disaster was caused by greater drifting than I estimated. Although I have nothing with which to pay the material damage, the moral responsibility is heavy enough...
...their fellow Tycoon Etienne Allard and fourth was a distinguished young member of the Belgian nobility, Count Philippe d'Arschot. Escorted by Ambassador May and members of his staff, they had come to carry out an ancient rite, to which Belgium, of all nations, now alone adheres. Their sole mission was to inform the President in person that Leopold III now sits on the throne of Belgium...