Word: groupe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three and twelve at hazard were called crabs, and to throw one of those numbers was to crab. In France the game of hazard was called krabs, and is so called in a long description of the game in the third volume of the Mathématiques group of the Encyclopeédic Méthodiqué, dates 1792. Craps as we know it today is simply a French simplification of hazard, or krabs, and the word craps, originally spelled creps or kreps, is a corruption of the English crabs. It is so defined in every French dictionary to which...
Thus was an indelible Red label pasted on the chief pressure group for bigger WPA appropriations. It immediately put WPAdministrator Francis ("Pink") Harrington on the hottest spot he has been on since he succeeded Harry Hopkins. There was talk in the committee of proposing that no WPA money be paid to any Alliance members unless Colonel Harrington terminates his friendly relations with Alliance leaders. Colonel Harrington coolly retorted that he had noted nothing subversive about the Alliance. "I see no objection," said he, "to having a spokesman for workers discuss wages, hours and working conditions with their superiors...
...closed shop,* or a contract clause permitting him to strike whenever A. F. of L.'s unions, particularly the small Progressive Miners of America, may try to encroach on U. M. W. preserves. Many an operator was willing to surrender by last week, but as a group they still hung together for renewal of the old contract, including a clause which makes U. M. W. pay penalties of $1-$2 per day per man during any strike called while a wage contract is in force...
...grind in his article "A German Village of Today." Professor Zimmerman has been making a study of the ancient German hamlet of Klein Leugden, and he attempts here to reach a fair conclusion as to the effects of Nazi legislation on the lives of this small group of German villagers...
Council nominations lists will be drawn up by a committee composed of eight Senior Council members, five Juniors (not Council members), and four Sophomores; the group will be picked by the Council President, with the approval of the Council...