Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week company and union came to terms, signing U. R. W.'s first contract with a major rubber concern. Firestone agreed to bargain with the union, to stop financing its company union. U. R. W. agreed not to "cause or tolerate" Sit-Downs and other strikes, not to coerce prospective members. Included in the contract (to run for one year) was provision for the first standard 36-hour week ever adopted in a major U. S. industry, with a promise that before layoffs are made hours will be cut to 24 per week for eight weeks...
Failing to hold an early lead, the Jayvee baseball team lost to the Northeastern Freshmen yesterday afternoon. With two men out in the ninth inning Northeastern rallied when the third batter walked, the next man singled, and another walked to fill the bases. Griffin, the short-stop, then singled to center scoring the tying and winning runs...
Saturday at 12 o'clock in Emerson D. Alfred North Whitehead, professor of Philosophy, gives his last lecture as an active member of the University. Professor Whitehead becomes Emeritus at the close of this academic year, but the Reading Period puts the full stop at the end of his teaching career this week...
...leaders of the trade have made too much noise, and no less an authority than Ann Corio has claimed that the industry was "getting along nicely as long as Mr. Minsky kept his nose out of it". And secondly those who have risen in indignation to put a stop to the evil have spoken with a voice of authority that would have been difficult to deny. When the shepherd of the Catholic diocese of New York in the person of Cardinal Hayes lashes out in the attack, rash indeed would be the parishioner who opposed...
FORTUNE found that the real story dates back to last June, when Steelman Taylor sailed for Europe "in a peculiarly philosophic mood." Just before he sailed he had opposed, though not strongly enough to stop it, the manifesto published in paid advertisements last summer by the American Iron & Steel Institute declaring war on John L. Lewis. It was evident to Mr. Taylor that Steel's traditional "blood and brimstone" labor policies were thoroughly outmoded. Yet "to give in to Labor spinelessly meant to lose control over the business one had been hired to manage. To fight Labor adamantly meant...