Word: compelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Return of Sophie Lang (Paramount) is a shipboard anecdote of a thief's (Gertrude Michael) redemption. Force opposing: Sir Guy Standing as Max Bernard, a scoundrel trying to compel Miss Lang to resume the racket she faked death to desert. Force assisting: Ray Milland, once of the late George V's palace guards, as Jimmy Dawson, a reporter so infatuated that he was in the habit of leaving bouquets on the supposed grave of Miss Lang inscribed "in memory of glamour." Plot development consists mostly of the pastime, so popular at Paramount this year, of passing stolen jewelry...
...objective of the campaign is the 'closed shop' which prohibits the employment of anyone not a union member. The steel industry will oppose any attempt to compel its employes to join a union or to pay tribute for the right to work...
...National League of Nursing Education. Two years ago this body set out to shut down schools of nursing operated by hospitals with less than 100 patients a day on whom student nurses might practice. The move was to reduce the number of new nurses entering the profession and to compel those who did enter to have excellent training (TIME...
...banking decision handed down by a New York court last week gave pause to eleven Manhattan banks not involved in the litigation at all. Case was the suit brought by the U. S. Comptroller of the Currency to compel the members of the New York Clearing House to make good the losses of a fallen member, Harriman National Bank & Trust Co., which went under in 1933 as a result of the finagling of Joseph Wright Harriman (TIME, May 4). According to the Comptroller, the Clearing House banks had agreed the previous year to keep Harriman National afloat. Eleven Clearing House...
...intended to make 40 hours the maximum working week hereafter in French industry. Standard in France since 1919 has been the 48-hour week. The 40-hour week passed the Chamber last week 385-to-175, went to the Senate along with the four other bills which seek to compel two-week vacations with pay for all French workers, collective labor contracts to protect their rights, higher wages and reduction of some taxes paid by War veterans...