Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal stand on the Sit-Down extended "straight down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House." Senator Johnson asserted that the President could have stopped the Sit-Down epidemic with six words-"I will not tolerate Sit-Down strikes"-and recalled an old law which empowers the Government to step in when a State is unable to put down public disorder. Senator Borah, the Senate's greatest constitutional lawyer, reminded his fellows that the Government could do nothing until local officials announced themselves thwarted...
...unauthorized" General Motors sit-downs which were embarrassing union leaders last week showed that plain workers, awakened to a sense of their own power, were taking the new weapon in their own hands. Aghast at wholesale seizure of private property, some jittery souls were calling the Sit-Down a step upward communism. To calmer observers, the sit-downer's fierce assertion of a proprietary right in his own job seemed more like communism's antithesis, an uncalculated species of simple anarchy. In asserting that right, the sit-downer did not lack for articulate defenders. Even Son James Roosevelt...
...Florence Woodhead seemed to that bespectacled prosecutor "too flaming to repeat." One night eleven couples were lined up waiting in the hall outside the two bedrooms. "Speed" Morgan was accused of plying Barbara Page with liquor, contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Guest Elwood Jackson, 19, went a step further by taking Barbara across the Mexican border to Tiajuana, where they would have been married if he had been able to raise the $25 fee. Elwood Jackson and two other youths were held on charges of assault. Several of the 40 thoroughly scared participants rounded up at week...
...workers, and restricted solely by its own desires and ambitions. The dangers of such a centralized control of the American worker are obvious. Its political implications challenge democracy. ... To the extent that it succeeds, it means the economic and political slavery of the worker, and an important step toward an economic dictatorship...
Last autumn Transcontinental & Western Air infuriated its two major rivals, United and American Airlines, by cutting its fares about to railroad levels (TIME, Nov. 9). TWA took this risky step for two reasons: to counteract the usual traffic slump in winter and to counterbalance the fact that both United and American temporarily had more luxurious equipment. American got the first Douglas DC-3 sleepers last year, did not dare put an extra fare on them in the face of TWA's cuts. United, however, did add a $2 surcharge for the non-stop run from Newark to Chicago which...