Word: unite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Franklin Roosevelt had done was order the Battle Fleet-the fighting unit of the whole U. S. Fleet-back to its "normal operating areas" in the Pacific. But he had left in the Atlantic (and for the New York World's Fair) much more than the small Atlantic Squadron normally on eastern duty. By the order, four battleships, twelve cruisers, 23 destroyers, two aircraft carriers, six submarines would stay behind. Westward were to go eight battleships, 15 cruisers, 43 destroyers, three aircraft carriers, 20 auxiliaries...
...Germany. It is dependent upon imports for 30% of its foodstuffs. Germany can scarcely feed its own people. Most important, Dutch bankers finance with generous credits the largest part of Germany's raw-material purchases, and this trade would end when the guilder ceased to be the monetary unit of an independent country. Dutch neutrality was of crucial importance to Germany in the World War. Great shipments of materials passed through the Allied blockade -via the neutral Netherlands...
...Freeze into the law mandatory recognition of "any existing craft" as a bargaining unit-whether it includes one man or 100 in a plant, whether or not a majority of the workers in the plant want craft unions. (NLRB now has discretion to determine which type of bargaining unit seems fairest, in practice has decided in favor of A. F. of L. a majority of disputes directly involving this question. But precedents for deciding otherwise exist, hence bother A. F. of L.'s craft-conscious leadership...
...this is velvet, of course. The Major has a big and well-paid staff of 65, pays salaries of $50 to $100 a week to unit performers (now numbering about 100), foots the bill for musicians, producers, coaches, unit booking, management and traveling expenses. To each of the 20 or so amateurs chosen each week for the broadcast from among 500 selected applications he gives $10 and all the performer can eat on the evening of the broadcast. The Major's net is a secret closely guarded by the Major and his militantly loyal staff, but radio is agreed...
...Sunday morning a lacrosse unit, 17 strong, will take the road enroute for extremely of Pennsylvania, Maryland and the Navy. First to move into action will be Coach Rene Percy's fencers, who are competing in the Intercollegiate Fencing association's forty-sixth annual individual and team championship tournament today and tomorrow, in New York City's 17th Regimental Armory...