Word: backed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...errant youngster who suspects that pa was right. A. F. of L. and C. I. O., concluding their respective conventions in Cincinnati and San Francisco (TIME, Oct. 16), were a-twist with statutory cramps. Each had fattened on the Wagner Act; neither was ready to go all the way back to Sam Gompers and confess that what ailed them was an overdose of law. Both blamed the National Labor Relations Board for their gripes, each complained that craven administrators had favored the other. But angry John Lewis and his delegates came close to admitting that they knew the cause...
...having congratulated Postmaster General Farley for showing a"net operating surplus of $10,000,000" for the last fiscal year, praised his "humane and efficient leadership," sat down to a feed. They ate up, among other things, 25 gallons of olives, 1,800 breasts of capons. Then they settled back to hear their boss tell them that "the U. S. Post Office and its people constitute the greatest public service in existence today...
...bouquet of roses presented to her at the banquet, a menu signed by Jim Farley, a waltz with an unknown postmaster. "Our badges were our introduction," she explained. "I love to dance-the waltz glide, not this hopping around." Then back she went to her post office on the Eastern Shore, for bi-monthly stocktaking...
...farmers-we've got to get a-farmin'. We ain't goin' back on no Goddamned relief no more. . . ." Act II-"If you think anyone can make a livin' in this dump you're crazy...
...German-speaking Estonians, descendants of the Teutonic Knights and Hanseatic merchants who had settled in the Eastern Baltic six and seven centuries ago, made haste to get out. Further south, in Latvia, 60,000 Balts-as the Germans are known in the Baltic-simultaneously began a mass migration back to the "spiritual homeland" they have not known for centuries, while in Lithuania, where Russian troops are expected before long, a mass exodus of 40,000 "racial comrades" was to begin shortly...