Word: address
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since the Centralia, Wash, massacre of 1919, the nation's most potent strikebreaking force has been the American Legion. Nevertheless, most celebrated non-laborite invited to address last week's convention was the Legion's corpulent new National Commander James Raymond ("Ray") Murphy. Though scar-faced President Green later glossed over "mistakes by some Legionnaires" in past labor disputes, Mr. Murphy was there to ask the Federation to join the Legion (and the Daughters of the American Revolution) in a great nationwide Red-hunt. A number of radical labor delegates had absented themselves from the hall...
...united Labor front at the ballot boxes. But the policy of Boss William Green and most of his lieutenants has been that of a ward leader: "Reward your friends and punish your enemies." At last week's meeting President Green squashed the Labor Party agitation in his keynote address by replying to advice sent last summer from the Comintern at Moscow urging U. S. workers to align politically. "[The A. F. of L.] will not take that action because some order comes from some gathering in a foreign country. . . . No government in a foreign land . . . can tell the American...
President Conant will preside at the dinner and President emeritus Lowell will deliver the principal address. Dean Burwell will also speak...
...expectation in the town changes to one of realization. All the Freshmen are up, and the college notice boards are draped with notices of an official nature. In many colleges it is the custom for the tutors to address a meeting of all the Freshmen in which they advise their pupils what to do and what not to do. They are told to wear cap and gown in the streets after dark; failing this, and supposing the proctors catch them, they pay a fine of 6s 8d (a third of a pound). They are also advised, not in so many...
...there will be a joint meeting of the Association and the Bond Astronomical Club in the New Lecture Hall. Charles W. Elmer, vice-president, will give an illustrated talk on "The Paris Meeting of the International Astronomical Union". Annie J. Cannon, of the Observatory Director, and Campbell will also address the meeting...