Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...employes still considered themselves on strike. Egged on by the A. F. of L., Secretary of Labor Perkins had for some weeks been trying to get in touch with Mr. Rand, whose associates professed themselves completely in the dark as to his whereabouts. Last week she took the extraordinary step of publishing an open letter in the press requesting him to come to Washington to discuss his labor troubles with her. A Rand vice president promptly telegraphed that Mr. Rand would be glad to oblige. Meantime this week the National Labor Relations Board concluded its Rand investigation with a blistering...
...retaliation for the company's petition for an injunction, the union then carried its sit-down technique one step further, took full possession of the offices, refused to let officials enter at all and prevented the delivery or dispatch of company mail. Only thing the strikers did not seize was the company's officials themselves. These announced that they would attend to as terms." At least 500,000 Britons should now be rushed out as new farmers onto the Kingdom's land as a rearmament measure, according to Mr. Lloyd George last week, but Mr. Chamberlain...
Toward week's end the pace of metal speculation in both London and the U. S. slowed appreciably. Ominous reports that the British Government would step in, if speculators continued to boost the costs of rearmament, dampened London's ardor. But metals did not calm down until zinc had zoomed to the highest price in eleven years (7½ per lb.) and lead, in the heaviest trading in that heavy metal in the history of the New York Commodity Exchange, was whooped to 7¼? per lb., highest since...
What the Court of Appeals had to do was to get in step with the U. S. Supreme Court by explaining its Doubleday, Doran-Macy decision. Wrote Chief Justice Frederick E. Crane: "[When] the publisher sought ... to compel Macy to sell the books at the price it had fixed with another Doubleday corporation . . . we thought this to be a clear case of unauthorized restriction upon the disposition of one's own property and unconstitutional within former decisions of the United States Supreme Court. That court has [now] taken a different view ... so we feel it to be our duty...
THIS LIFE I'VE LOVED-Isobel Field- Longmans, Green ($3). The step-daughter of Robert Louis Stevenson recalls with a benevolent serenity unusual in artists' memoirs, her varied life in Nevada mining camps, San Francisco's art colony, Hawaiian King Kalakaua's court, in Samoa as amanuensis to Stevenson during his last days...