Word: watt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reminded that the chief objection to a closed shop was that for the working majority it gave a monopolistic privilege, Watt answered that the minority must be a factor in an agreement also...
Typically American in its acceptance of labor standards "just as they happened to be" within its own sphere, the University takes a normal, "rugged-individualist" attitude towards unions, according to Robert J. Watt, secretary for the Massachusetts division...
Referring to the present negotiations between Local 186 and the Business Office, Watt said in an interview that he was confident Harvard would recognize his organization. That the two bargaining groups would be locked in inimical deadlock, he waived as unlikely...
...possible reaction of union negotiation on undergraduates, Watt said, "I'm not worrying about the student. They have a better chance to succeed than those who begin life scrubbing floors...
...These fish glide as well as fly. . . . The following are my personal observations, made under nearly "laboratory" conditions. On Aug. 31 at Santa Barbara Island, the U.S.S. West Virginia, was at anchor in the lee of the island during the night. On the midwatch I had rigged a 200-watt cargo lamp, equipped with a reflector, at the side to direct boats to the quarter-deck sea-ladder. The light was 20 ft. above the water line, and pointed directly downward. At least two dozen flying fish of lengths varying from 18 to 24 in. were attracted to this lighted...