Word: unite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last March in the Pittsburgh offices of the biggest steel-producing unit in the world, Chairman Philip Murray of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee and President Benjamin Franklin Fairless of Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. sat down to seal an historic industrial treaty. The broad outlines of the treaty between Steel and Labor had already been settled by the negotiators' respective superiors, John Llewellyn Lewis for Labor and Myron Charles Taylor for Steel (TIME, March 15). After the first talk Philip Murray declared: "This is unquestionably the greatest story in the history of the American Labor Movement...
...entirely of experienced men, and he hasn't changed that crew once. It was quite a remarkable job of picking, and the result is that the boat that has been working together so long with none of those disturbing changes in personnel has developed into a powerful, smoothly functioning unit...
...Saturday, will help bolster up the scrum which proved a little weak in the Nassau game. With Jerry Desmond and Alan Simpson as inside three-quarters, the back line looks quite strong for this game. With one game behind them the team ought to be playing more as a unit today and the outlook is bright...
...Ogpu has had its own troops, numbering some 240,000, and individually much better equipped than Red Army troops. As the Dictator's elite guards, these have rushed about Russia, here mercilessly mowing down a peasant revolt, there breaking a strike, next subduing a mutinous Red Army unit. Without need to take as gospel truth even the more authoritative Moscow rumors on this subject this week, it was possible to scan them as significant reminders of some of the sorest points festering these many years in the Soviet Union...
...fact that its President Jerome Davis will not be reappointed to Yale's Divinity School faculty when his contract expires in June. Last week the Federation received two more jolts, from Harvard. Its vice president, John Raymond Walsh, and the secretary of its Harvard unit, Alan Richardson Sweezy, were informed that when their contracts expire in June, both will receive "two-year concluding contracts" instead of three-year renewals. In union language there was no doubt that Unionists Walsh and Sweezy, like Unionist Davis, were being fired. Harvard hastened to issue a statement explaining that the "cases present...