Word: undercutting
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...case on the docket in Langdell Hall was Fredericks Brothers vs. The Amalgamated Brotherhood of Plumbers and Steamfitters, and the dispute centered on whether a union was justified in picketing a firm which had no union employees and was able to undercut companies with which the union had agreements...
Elliott Roosevelt and his wife, Actress Faye Emerson, were again determined to "make Christians out of Christmas tree dealers." Last year they undercut upstate New York dealers by selling 20,000 trees from their Val-Kill farm at $1 each. This month, with the price up from 75? to 95? apiece, they will take 50,000 trees to Manhattan, where tree dealers have never spared the customer...
...reasons were not hard to find. In the years when Humphrey was building a reputation as a crack executive, a friend of labor, a staunch anti-Communist liberal, Joe Ball had seemed perversely determined to undercut his own earlier supporters. He had lost whatever labor backing he had once had by heading the get-tough-with-labor wing in the Taft-Hartley debates. He had baffled the farmers by plying them with abstruse economic theories. He had alienated many a Republican regular by jumping party lines to vote for Franklin Roosevelt...
There might be more trouble for ERP in the House, but it would be of a "constructive" sort, aimed at helping to shape a foreign policy both stronger and more coherent. But aid to Europe would pass-and probably soon enough to undercut at least some Communist propaganda in the Italian elections next month. The House, which was still planning to combine ERP with all other foreign aid projects in one omnibus bill, was heading for an April 1 passage. That gave Arthur Vandenberg 18 days to iron out the last differences in conference...
With Austin's speech the damage spread; it undercut the main line of U.S. policy in the U.N. For two years the U.S., faced with the Russian abuse of the Security...