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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week U. S. District Attorney William J. Campbell in Chicago "respectfully requested" Western Union, A. T. & T. and the telephone company's Illinois subsidiary to disconnect Nationwide's number. Unless they obeyed, they might be indicted as accessories in an illegal enterprise. Although Mr. Campbell has yet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Disconnected? | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Dominating the neighborhood, the Center has drawn in tenants like a sponge, emptied offices in many another building. Rented was 85% of 5,114,000 square feet of floor space, its two miles of shop frontage. Sixteen hundred companies and their subsidiaries, 25,000 people, lived their business and professional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Monument | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Labor and Democracy is nevertheless a true mirror of William Green-a plain work by a plain man. "Those of us who have grown up in the labor movement," he observes, "know that its real strength and function is not as an army with banners flying, enlisted for a crusade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Bannerless Man | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Of his intimate associations with John Lewis in the United Mine Workers (before C. I. O. was formed), with A. F. of L.'s Founder Sam Gompers, with many another Laborite and politico, impersonal Author Green tells almost nothing. The one anecdote in his 194 pages of record and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Bannerless Man | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Idle and restless at last week's end were 55,000 Chrysler employes and upwards of 50,000 more in affected supply plants. It was 30 days since Chrysler Corp. began to answer union slowdowns with shutdowns in Detroit. Wage losses totted up to $4,000,000. The corporation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Golden Luren | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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