Word: unitedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emperor Menelek II. Then in 1909, with China on the edge of a bloody revolution, a detachment of U. S. marines stationed at Peking mounted stumpy-legged Mongolian ponies, set to watching over U. S. citizens living outside embassy quarters. Since then, the Peking marines have remained a mounted unit. A fixture in China service, they liked to refer to themselves as "the world's only Horse Marines...
...highly probable. Since the Austrian schilling is fairly sound money, whereas the German mark is artificial in the extreme, the two countries will have a tough currency transfer problem on their hands, probably to be solved by the barter methods of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. In the end, an economic unit the size of small Austria and big Germany combined ought to be a much sounder proposition than a unit only the size of Austria...
Among the amendments voted by the house were provisions prohibiting coercion of non-striking workers by strikers, and outlawing the sit-down strike as a labor weapon. Another measure adopted granted employers to "petition the NLRB for an election to determine the collective bargaining unit in his plant...
Arnold shows that despite the sweeping technological changes which have transformed the character of economic enterprise, much of America is still thinking in terms of myths applicable to the days before the giant corporation became the dominant economic unit. He shows us that the folklore of individualism built around a creature fast becoming extinct makes us look upon huge corporations as individuals, and government regulation of these organizations as invasions of private rights...
...Duchess of Windsor to the U. S., is cordially disliked by organized labor because he (1 heads an agency for strikebreakers, 2 is chairman of Republic Steel Corporation, 3 called out the militia in a textile strike, 4 is a friend of the DuPonts, 5 invented an efficiency unit system which workers regard the same as '"stretch-out" or "speed...