Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...judge of Detroit's Recorder's Court. Frank Murphy is a red-headed dynamo, but he had not had a full night's sleep for five weeks. Husky Vice President Knudsen, according to one of his best friends, had "aged ten years in the past month." Strike Leader Homer Martin was worn to a frazzle, and C. I. O. Counsel Lee Pressman, third Labor representative, had just come from arguing the injunction suit before Judge Gadola. G. M.'s Finance Chairman Donaldson Brown and General Counsel John Thomas Smith showed the effects of the long weeks...
...when Governor Murphy ordered Sheriff Wolcott to ignore Judge Gadola's writ. At week's end William Green wired to Governor Murphy that the executive council of the American Federation of Labor had adopted a ''hands off policy" which in effect endorsed Insurgent Lewis' strike, although the Federation promised jealously to protect the rights of G. M.'s craft unionists. Having digested that message, the conferees met at Governor Murphy's call for their eleventh session. That night G. M.'s Donaldson Brown, emphasizing that G. M. was not walking...
...means all, perhaps not a majority, of Kidnapper Chang's troops had gone over to the Red State last week and strong Nanking forces under General Ku Chu-tung were in their second month of creeping approach to Sian, close but hesitant to strike. So much money had already been spent by Nanking in bribes to regain Sian that it seemed a shame to have to spend shot & shell too. In the city was enigmatic General Yang Fu-cheng, erstwhile accomplice of the kidnapper. Nanking continued to figure that Yang had been or could be bought, gradually became alarmed...
...publications it aimed to miss. Its cover and typography, its centre section of long corporation stories on Western Union, Sikorsky Aircraft and Promoter George L. Berry, were strongly reminiscent of FORTUNE. Its general run of financial news stories (leading article of Vol. 1 No. 1 was the automobile strike) sounded much like the Journal...
...department store his father owned in Nashville, Tenn., George Arthur Sloan became a U. S. notable in June 1933, when as president of the Cotton-Textile Institute he walked into the White House with the first NRA code ever drafted. His trade association experience later included the big textile strike of 1934, during which picketers outside his Manhattan office sang: "We will hang George Sloan to a sour apple tree." An apostle of NRA cooperation, he predicted "inflation, chaos" on its demise. Since his resignation from the Institute in 1935, he has made money as a selling agent for textile...