Word: summered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House, its 90 Republicans were naturally lined up solidly against the plan. So was a strong Democratic anti-Roosevelt bloc led by New York's Tammanyite John O'Connor, Chairman of the Rules Committee which stopped the President's Wages-&-Hours Bill last summer. Nonetheless, voting on amendments earlier in the week had suggested that the coalition was sufficiently outnumbered to make the final vote on recommitting-i.e., killing- the bill little more than a formality prefacing its passage. When sturdy Mr. O'Connor rose to speak his final piece on the matter last week...
...brief and bustling history of the Committee for Industrial Organization records only one important defeat: the repulse of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee last summer by the embattled masters of "Little Steel" led by Labor's most galling nemesis, Tom M. Girdler, president of Republic Steel. If steel labor history repeated itself, this defeat should have settled the labor problems of Mr. Girdler and his friends for a decade or two. But, until recently, labor history never knew an unassuming lawyer named J. Warren Madden and the National Labor Relations Board over which he efficiently presides. Last week, what...
Another thing Eddie can't understand is the colleges "straight laced" attitude toward students playing summer ball for a semi-pro team. Collins argues that there's no difference between picking up money in baseball and business...
...Harvard, Yale, and Princeton are the worst. My boy, who is quite au athlete at Yale, and Lupien out at Harvard are burned up because they can't play in the summer, when there are innumerable boys at Dartmouth, Cornell, and Pennsylvania who get jobs every year with some semi-pro club...
...stocky Austrian Olympic ace, whose spectacular record-smashing feats have astounded swimming enthusiasts all over the nation, feels that the opportunity he has been offered is too good to refuse, and will start work in Chicago or Atlanta the summer. He will definitely not return to Harvard...