Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parachute Jump is an offshoot of a practical idea, employed since 1932 by the Soviet Union to help train military and civilian fliers. Today, at Hightstown, N. J.'s military training towers, the Jump corresponds to the first step in teaching aviators to bail out. At Hightstown it is called "captive drop with seat"; next comes "captive drop with harness"; there after, free drops without safety cables...
...arrive for the first meeting of the recently established C. I. O. executive board was President Lewis himself, looking hot and tired in summer whites. "Hi, Jim, how are you, boy?" he greeted boyish, diffident James Barton Carey, secretary of C. I. 0. and president of its electrical union. Vice President Philip Murray was gravely on his dignity, as becomes a crown prince. Bronzed with a Florida tan, recovered from pneumonia, Vice President Sidney Hillman backslapped one & all. Mooning about like a bitter rabbit was little Alien Harry Bridges, whose services to C. I. O. on the West Coast...
...recent upsurge of anti-union legislation in California, Oregon, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Michigan taught John Lewis anything, it was that Labor was not uniformly popular in all sections of the country even with vote-hungry politicians, and that Labor had better bestir itself politically. Leader Lewis now talked of forming "articulate groups of workers to declare themselves on social, political and economic affairs," and belligerently proclaimed: "Progressive Labor is not retreating." On his recommendation, his board proceeded to woo Youth and Farmers, tease the Aged by recommending $60-a-month Federal pensions for single oldsters over 60, $90 a month...
...Daniel Buchman was guided to apply to the Board of Trade for incorporation as a limited company. Reason: it was legally nonexistent, could not collect a ?500 legacy willed to it (TIME, March 20). When the Group's application was made known, wigs hit the green. The Oxford Union, the Oxford Hebdomadal Council and A. P. Herbert, M. P. for Oxford, protested that the Group's use of the name Oxford was misleading. Numerous other M.P.s got into the row, pro and con. Supporters pointed out that the name Oxford was not the exclusive property of Oxford...
...personification of the stiff upper lip that always dresses for dinner, especially among savages, has made him an effective one-man propaganda bureau for the British virtues. The Sun Never Sets is another reminder that, as long as C. Aubrey Smith, O. B. E., remains above the horizon, the Union Jack will continue to fly at full staff over Hollywood. His main service in this cinema is to hike young John Randolph (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) out of a cankerous apathy toward the imperial sun ("Let it set. It's about time it did") and into the Colonial service with...