Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...majority of the workers in a plant the right to bargain for all the plant's workers. The American Federation of Labor favors such a policy, but not President Roosevelt who has made it clear that 1) he favors proportionate representation in collective bargaining; 2) he intends to support the Automobile Labor Board which is setting up such a system. By introducing his bill without any White House backing Senator Wagner served notice that, as between two friends, he would stand with the A. F. of L. rather than Franklin Roosevelt. The results are yet to be seen...
...worth remembering," said the President to the Congress last week, "that the purpose of this law challenged the imagination of the American people and received their overwhelming support." But that was nearly two years ago and Franklin Roosevelt was not fooling himself about the present status of NRA. In his message to Congress he was rehearsing all the good points he could think of in NRA's favor-its noble objectives, its more disputable accomplishments: "Giving re-employment to 4,000,000 people. . . . Collective Bargaining. . . . Lifting the curse of child labor . . . starvation wages . . . excessive hours of labor . . . dishonorable competition...
...files of His Majesty's Government. Said Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald: "We felt it would be a great mistake to assume, by giving special powers to the commission, that it would have any difficulty in getting witnesses and evidence. But we mean to give it full support in the discharge of its duties...
...Connelly caught up with him in the autumn of 1929. On the road Actor Harrison lives with friends he made years ago while on Chautauqua tours, or in Y. M. C. A.'s. He has not squandered a liberal salary. A large part of it goes to the support of an invalid wife, whom he married 40 years ago with his friend, the late Negro Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, as best man. A son, who struggles with a jazz band, and a daughter, who has proved an indifferent performer in Negro musical shows, also require "de Lawd...
...Ohioan who sold advertising for ten years for Curtis Publishing Co., went into the publishing business for himself. He bought John Martin's Book, later scrapped it. Also he issued a cookbook for distribution in Woolworth stores which has sold phenomenally. Mrs. David Stern offered her financial support to the revived St. Nicholas, but Publisher Walker accepted only her advisory assistance, in an effort to "bring the magazine up to its former standard, so that the new generation of American children may grow up with really first rate prose, verse and illustration...