Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There were no executions last week for murder pure and simple. Killing is no capital crime in the Soviet Union unless committed in some way against the State, for example by shooting a grain collector...
...Mexico City, last week, 300 employes of the Ford assembling plant went on strike. Reason: Desire for union recognition. No other strike has ever occurred in a Ford concern...
Carefully Moderator McAfee pointed out that "the overtures are not a yielding to the clamor of the women nor an acceptance of their demand. There is no such clamor, no such demand." Added Feminist Ella Alexander Boole, President of the Women's Christian Temperance Union: "It is not at all probable that many women will seek ordination...
...Also, board chairman of the Union Industrial Bank of Flint. Last week Mr. Mott and his banking colleagues had to post, pending collection of insurance, $800,000 to cover peculation of five employes who played and lost in the stock market...
...worst sort of airless middle class Victorian household. His parents, blindfolded and swaddled by sexual ignorance and sentimentalism, had tumbled into marriage and lived at leisure in shabby gentility and domestic tyranny. George became a painter, and, in revolt against his parents' ideas, contracted a free and childless union with Elizabeth. Later, when she mistakenly believed herself pregnant, he married her. They agreed that each should be perfectly free to have other affairs, and Elizabeth enjoyed her freedom, until she found that George was enjoying himself with her friend Fanny. Then George went to War, quixotically enlisting as a private...