Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With most returns in, it appeared certain last week that Progressive candidates had lost often enough to weaken Homer Martin's prestige considerably. In Flint, Mich., focal point of the General Motors empire, with 30.000 union members, the Martin forces won their only important victory. Martin and Frankensteen took the stump personally, and their ticket was returned by nearly 2-to-1. But Detroit's bustling West Side local, with another 30,000 members, re-elected Unity Leader Walter Reuther by 4-to-1. Roland J. Thomas, president of the Chrysler local, a vice president of the international...
...drastic reductions in hours for thousands of auto workers. Unemployment is always a severe test of the loyalty of union members, particularly so for U. A. W. members, most of whom are new to unionism.* With it came a drop in dues payments so sharp that the international union took all its organizers off the payroll, asked them to serve on a volunteer basis temporarily. Despite claims of increasing enrollment of Ford workers, the union is now less specific than it was last summer about the date it expects a Ford signature on the bottom of a collective agreement...
...with chunky President Wilhelm Miklas. To cheering Viennese engineering students he proclaimed "Statesmen seek peace through laws and conferences, sometimes forgetting that engineers can give them the things that make peace." Nine days later, with Guest Hoover then in Poland, Austrian Host Miklas lost his job and German troops took possession of Austria...
Lavish, genial was the luncheon next day in Karin Hall, elaborate hunting lodge of the Reich's Master of the Hunt, Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Göring, the No. 2 Nazi. Before leaving Germany for Poland, former President Hoover took what seemed like a long-range dig at President Roosevelt. "Most of the nations I have visited," reported Herbert Hoover, "have done more in public health and housing for the lower-income groups than we have in America...
...ringing tones Orator Chamberlain cried: "His Majesty's Government stand by these declarations!" That pretty well took care of rumors of the week before that "Young Turks" hoped to turn out old Neville Chamberlain for failing to support Mr. Eden's uncompromising hostility to aggressive Italy and Germany. The Commons cheered Mr. Chamberlain to the rafters and His Majesty's Government were keel down once more...