Word: strengtheners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Workers wanted the "checkoff" because it would keep their treasury full and save them some $200,000 per year now lost in nonpayment of dues or spent on collectors to round up delinquent mem- bers after payday. Operators had refused this demand because they did not wish to help strengthen financially an organization which overnight might become their bitter foe in a labor...
Wage Cuts: "Capitalism's economic crisis involves wage reductions and increased pressure on the workers, which will strengthen the revolutionary movement and increase the influence and authority of the Komintern [also known as the Third International, headquartered at Moscow, which is striving to foment 'The World Revolution of the World Proletariat...
...Dean's office just what the restoration of St. Paul's had actually been It was limited almost entirely to the great pillars supporting the dome. These, under Architect Christopher Wren were faced with stone but filled with rubble. In two centuries the rubble had settled. To strengthen the pillars they were given gigantic hypodermic injections of liquid cement under pressure...
...succeed hustling, bustling President Charles C. Younggreen (Klau-Van Pietersom-Dunlap-Younggreen, Inc., of Milwaukee), who is credited with "putting the Federation on its feet," delegates chose Gilbert Tennent Hodges of the executive board of the New York Sun. His chief job: to strengthen the Federation's influence in the unclubby East...
Redemption (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This is an ambitious version of Tolstoy's play about a man who redeemed himself spiritually by sacrificing everything, even life, to his inability to make decisions. Its intention is less to popularize Tolstoy than to strengthen the prestige of Actor John Gilbert, whose first talking picture, His Glorious Night, was a failure. Gilbert declaims Fedya in a resonant, hollow voice, giving in his best scenes a lively imitation of John Barrymore and in his worst a caricature of himself in those pictures in which he made his reputation as the Screen's Greatest Lover...