Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Impressed by this large-scale demonstration of his power was Secretary-General Vicente Lombardo Toledano of the year-old CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers), a hot-eyed little industrial unionist who likes to be compared with John L. Lewis. CTM's Toledano was one big step ahead of CIO's Lewis in that the employers had voluntarily formed a syndicate to bargain collectively under Mexico's 1931 Labor Law. Negotiations were stalled when the employers stuck flatly at the Oil Workers' demands: a 40-hour week instead of 44, a boost in minimum wages from roughly...
...place on the lake front by six tugs. While the Aquacade was going on, the stage was to be 60 ft. offshore from the block-long casino whence 4,000 spectators could watch. After the show the stage would move in on underwater runways so close that guests could step aboard and dance to the music of big-name bands. Rose had his usual staff to carry out his ideas: stage designs by Albert Johnson, direction by John Murray Anderson, costumes by Raoul Pene duBois, music by Dana Suesse (Whistling in the Dark, You Ought to Be in Pictures...
...setting up an all-inclusive undergraduate athletic body, the H.A.A. has moved one more step past the stage of echoing the phrase "give the game back to the boys" in the actual direction of giving it back. By getting representatives of all types of sport together in one forum, by granting that forum definite duties and a definite voice, by stipulating that it must meet regularly, the Athletic Association does its part and puts it squarely up to all students to show that they are willing and eager to take part in the sport program off as well...
...Because we are convinced this contract would be merely the first step toward a later demand for the closed shop and the checkoff...
...Shrewd, grey-haired Robert Ralph Young, who called himself and partners "babes in the woods" when they bought control of Alleghany Corp. from George A. Ball (TIME, May 3), insisted again that he could simplify the Van Sweringen pyramid more painlessly than could Congress. First step, said he, would be elimination of Alleghany Corp., not Chesapeake Corp. as he had announced fortnight before. But Babe Young appeared for the first time genuinely starry-eyed when he confessed that he had never heard of the classic 1,800-page report on railroad holding companies made in 1931 by ICCommissioner Walter Marshall...