Word: trim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...individual . . . cajoled, coerced, intimidated and on many occasions beaten up. . . . The employer's plight has likewise not been happy." The committee blamed the unions, which the Wagner Act had made into a "tyranny more despotic than one could think possible in a free country." Congressmen were resolved to trim down that tyranny. A minority of committeemen protested that the bill would "result in bitter and costly strikes...
...Hartley bill proposes to return the injunction as an anti-strike weapon, to outlaw industry-wide bargaining, the closed shop, the check-off of union dues, and to permit the union shop only with the employer's blessing. These and other measures are considered necessary to trim labor's "monopoly." This line of argument overlooks the fact that while organized labor trebled its ranks under the protection of the Wagner and Norris-LaGuardia acts, violence and extra-legal actions have been dropped from the arsenals of those unions that can approach the conference table with bargaining power approximately equal...
...trim cattle-and-wheat center of Woodward, Okla. (pop. 5,500), Clyde Grim, 57, a mechanic, and his wife had finished supper. At 8:42 p.m., the wind blew the kitchen door open. "It blew us outside on the ground," Grim said. "There were cars in the air, some blowing straight up. People were screaming. It was awful. There was a hissing and a popping sound, and through it all I could hear my wife praying...
Coach Bill Barclay will trim down his swollen crew of 40 links candidates to a team of nine or ten this week, in preparation for Saturday's opener against M.I.T...
Back in Lima last month after a Colombian tour, 24-year-old Conchita, a slim, trim blonde with unforgettably cold blue eyes, was the talk and toast of the Peruvian capital. U.S. Ambassador Prentice Cooper stopped her on the street, introduced himself, gladly shook her tiny, calloused hand. Twice she fought in the ring-and brilliantly. She might have appeared oftener (at her usual $12,000 fee), but she was annoyed that Lima's new 30,000-seat bull ring, for which she laid the first stone three years ago, was still unfinished...