Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Semenov in person and informed that we were not under arrest but that a banquet was being prepared for us. The building was the village hotel which had been converted into temporary headquarters for the General and his staff. Later the General posed for me while I took the enclosed picture...
Last week the Board took by no means its first but certainly its most spectacular dive into the muddied waters of dual unionism. The case involved National Electric Products Corp. Bidding for National Electric's 1,600 workers in Ambridge, Pa., near Pittsburgh, vere the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (A. F. of L.) and the United Electrical & Radio Workers (C. I. O.). Last May the company suddenly signed an A. F. of L. contract providing not only for exclusive bargaining but also for a closed shop. That meant that every C. I. O. man in National Electric...
Before the Labor Board could pass on the case, the A. F. of L. took its iron-clad contract to a Federal district court, which ordered National Electric to live up to its terms-an order the company gladly obeyed. Last week, just as National Electric was posting this order throughout its plant, the Labor Board cracked down with a thunderous ruling that the A. F. of L. contract was "void and of no effect." Its "precipitate granting," held the Board, smacked of trickery, since the company knew that the A. F. of L. union "did not represent the free...
...adopted an anti-war resolution, calling for mandatory neutrality, withdrawal of U. S. armed forces from foreign soil. The Veterans also requested President Roosevelt to make public his intentions on the Administration's Far Eastern policy. Just before the convention closed General Butler again took the rostrum, and amid cheers and whistles read a "reply" from the President congratulating them on all their demands, saying: "Other countries must make their damned war without our help." When he finished the General looked up, saying: "It ain't signed. Wouldn't it be fine if we did get such...
...grew up with have gone much further afield. All her sisters have married, all of them much better than Claude. Of the Gerfaut boys, Mark has become an imminently famous writer, Ivan an explorer; Philippe, her special chum, a sculptor. Three months after she married Ernest the World War took him, deposited him in a German prison camp for four years. The Russian Revolution swept away her dowry savings, invested in Russian bonds. When peace came and Ernest was released, things looked brighter; then the post-War slump and a series of bad harvests put them hopelessly behind...