Word: attends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most Senators and Representatives critical of the President's Supreme Curt Plan and labor policies attended, for not to attend, barring a good excuse, was tantamount to a break with the New Deal. Among absentees were Senators Glass, George, Burke, Gerry, Sheppard, Copeland, King, Donahey, Holt, Bilbo...
...Washington press-agent was a luncheon the following day at which Mr. Girdler carried on for the benefit of a few handpicked newshawks. Earlier efforts by reporters to arrange an open press conference collapsed when Mr. Girdler is said to have learned that Columnist Heywood Broun planned to attend. Even at his private conference Mr. Girdler got into hot water. Calling the Mediation Board "incompetent and unfair," he asked: "Who is Taft? He is a man who likes to talk about the things his father did. Who is Ed McGrady? He is Fannie Perkins' and John Lewis' office...
...next setback as a disciplinarian was in the Government mental hospital at Buffalo. w?here he was transferred as an attendant. Promoted to mess manager, he once kept the kitchen gang overtime to rewash greasy dishes. In playful revenge they dropped a blanket over his head, pounded him with a plank. The officer whom he asked to arrest them replied: "It will do you good, this is America." After delivering a strait-jacketed Negro to Mississippi authorities, he was picked to attend Officers' Training School in Georgia, where for the first time he found things a little more suggestive...
...Stahlman explained that "collective bargaining is not an issue"; nor would the meeting "consider any interference with nor violation of the letter or the spirit of the Wagner Act." At week's end, however, as acceptances indicated at least 1,000 publishers or their home-office representatives would attend, the Guild in its Reporter solemnly recognized the publishers' threat: "It voices a challenge to the Guild on one of the most fundamental of the new requirements for contracts laid down at St. Louis, the Guild shop...
...immediate trade agreements. Avowed their chairman, sunny President Chokyuro Kadono of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce: "The primary consideration . . . was that the courtesy shown to us in the spring of 1935 [by the Forbes mission] . . . should be returned without delay." When they departed on the Normandie last week to attend the International Chamber of Commerce meeting in Berlin, Mr. Kadono and fellow missionaries were fatigued but well-satisfied that they had missed few contacts in the U. S. Accompanied by two wives, three managers, seven assistants and some 200 pieces of baggage, they had been entertained in San Francisco...