Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, Sudetens who had fled to Germany and organized a Freikorps ("Free Corps") appeared in Mufti, wearing Freikorps armbands and supplied with light German weapons of every sort, including hand grenades and machine guns, to wage localized warfare upon Czechoslovak towns and customs houses all along the Sudeten frontier. At As, the birthplace of No. 1 Sudeten Nazi Konrad Henlein, Czech gendarmes who fortnight ago described themselves as "Sons of Death'' were driven out with heavy casualties. The town of As is the fingernail of a tiny finger of Czechoslovakia extending 18 miles into Germany, and Sudetens...
Under the Railway Labor Act the appointment of a fact-finding commission will postpone a strike and maintain existing wage levels for sixty days pending recommendations...
President Roosevelt yesterday appointed James McC. Landis, Dean of the Law School, to a three-man commission to investigate the wage dispute in the railroad industry. Other members of the group are Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy of the North Carolina Supreme Court, chairman, and Professor Harry A. Millis of the University of Chicago...
...setting up the body yesterday, President Roosevelt said that the rail wage dispute "now threatens substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive the country of essential transport service...
Nine hundred and fifty thousand railroad workers have threatened to walk out Friday night if the carriers go through with the 15 percent wage cut scheduled for Saturday...