Word: unionization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hays has had much practice in cases involving civil liberties and he is at present the national, director of American Civil Liberties Union, an or ganisation which attempts to protect and further the civil rights and liberties of citizens throughout the country...
After spending the past week training at Syracuse, N. Y. Harvard's lacrosse team terminated its spring practices at Schenectady, N. Y. on Saturday with a 9 to 1 drubbing at the hands of Union College. Previous to their departure for Syracuse the team had won a game from the Alumni by a score...
Competition. So complete, so thoughtfully lucid is the White Act, that its meaning could not be twisted to meet the desires of the most ingenious mergophile. If the union of I.T.&T. with R.C.A. Communications will "substantially lessen competition," the Lamont-Young deal will be held a violation of the law, will doubtless be haled before the courts. As Negotiators Lamont and Young are famed not only as financiers, but also as highly ethical businessmen and citizens, they could scarcely plan to flout the law. The only possible alternative, therefore, is the proposition that radio and telegraph...
...most timorous mergophobe need not fear that the deal will create a world communications monopoly. Still the active, eager competitor of I.T.&T.'s wire systems is the mighty Western Union. Looming is a battle with Britain's merged cable-wireless companies. And for good measure, last week, Sweden's Kreuger & Toll (holding and financing company for the Swedish match trust) threatened to invade the foreign telephone field, in direct competition with...
...began his zealous campaigning against the opium trade. Later he was chief chaplain of the A. E. F. and president of the World Conference on Faith and Order (Lausanne, 1927). Devout and dignified, he became the dominant U. S. Episcopal clergyman. He believed in world peace and church union, was opposed to Prohibition. Years ago, he told his family: "There is no special place where I want to be buried. Just lay me to rest where I die." And Lausanne, where no grave may be leased for more than 50 years, is granting leave for him to rest there...