Word: waits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labor spokesmen cracked back that the unions "would stop at nothing short of a nationwide strike" to maintain their present wage scale. As George Harrison well knows, the Railway Labor Act's detailed procedure of negotiating wages takes months & months. And even President Roosevelt admits the roads cannot wait long for financial aid. Said he fortnight ago in passing along the railroad problem to Congress: "Some immediate legislation is, 'I believe, necessary at this session, in order to prevent serious financial and operating difficulties between now and the convening of the next Congress...
...only regret is that it should be so halting and so incomplete when the political condition in Washington seemed ripe for real reform. Should the G.O.P. regain power in 1940--something far from impossible, could a leader be found--then the long-suffering Civil Service might have to wait another three long years until the patronage wolves again became relatively satiated. Certainly the country fervently hopes that Congress will heed Senator Norris warning: "You Democrats said . . . 'We pledge the immediate extension of the civil service.' You had six years' time to do it and you have not done...
...other events of that pretentious show-a "George Washington Ball"; a ballet set to Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake; a "reproduction" of the Currier & Ives skating print; the appearances of Toronto's Louise Bertram & Stewart Reburn (the Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers of skating), of Comedian Eric Wait with his absurd walking stunt, of 83-year-old Skater Oscar L. Richard, who can still cut a Grade A outer edge...
...airmail to Franklin Roosevelt at Warm Springs, Ga. was the special report on the railroad crisis prepared by Interstate Commerce Commissioners Walter M. W. Splawn, Joseph B. Eastman and Charles D. Mahttie. Meantime, in Washington, the Association of American Railroads and the Railway Labor Executives Association "decided to wait and see what the President is going to do'' before discussing wage cuts. Said R.L.E.A. President George L. Harrison after the meeting: "They told us how poor they were." Said A.A.R. President J. J. Pelley: "And they told us how poor they were...
Three months after its dedication Gilbert Gable's dock collapsed in a storm. Since then a temporary pier has been built, Port Orford has grown to 1,000 in population and Gilbert Gable has become mayor. But no construction of the railroad has been started. Tired of waiting, local tycoons got behind a rival scheme. Five months ago, before an ICC examiner, this new group declared that it had funds to build a $7,000,000 line from Grants Pass, 15 miles south of Leland on the Southern Pacific, across the coastal range to Crescent City, 97 miles south...