Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action to speak louder than words for peace. Left-wing charges that A. F. of L. was too reactionary, that many an old-line A. F. of L. leader was a visionless labor boss, he brushed aside-all the more reason, said he, why the progressives should be back in A. F. of L., to moderate such tendencies. "The obstinacy of one organization caused the break," said David Dubinsky, "the obstinacy of the other organization is perpetuating it and making it deeper and wider...
Astonished by the smitch of dust from their own files, Prosecutor Courtney's lawyers wired Hollywood police to snatch Convict Bioff from his Hollywoodland palace on Santa Monica Boulevard, head him back toward prison. Cried Willie Bioff, now rich and 46: "I made mistakes as a boy. I had to come up the hard way. . . . Pegler . . . goes back 18 years for dirt to smear me with, is running interference for his plutocratic friends in Hollywood who are attacking me because I am fighting for the little fellows in the picture studios...
Chrysler's chunky President Kaufman Thuma Keller stayed away from most of the conferences in Detroit last week. He could not abide the taunts of U.A.W.'s keg-headed Richard Frankensteen, who continually brings up the story that back in the bad old non-union days, Chrysler planted a spying boarder in the Frankensteen home. But Mr. Keller's able, labor-wise Vice President Herman Weckler, negotiating with "Durable Dick" Frankensteen and his boss, U.A.W. President Roland Jay Thomas, actually seemed to be getting somewhere. Within sniffing distance was settlement, re-employment of 58,000 idle Chrysler...
Both sides continued to avoid calling the strike a strike. But when 57 Dodge foundry hands (mostly Negroes) went back to work at the Dodge plant, picketing strikers were angered, bricks flew (wounding two policemen and six Chrysler employes), and Mr. Thomas indignantly went through the motions of calling his unionists-who had marched in picket lines for 51 days-out "on strike...
...Uvalde, Texas, a spry, bowlegged little man with a stubborn back-hair cowlick celebrated his 71st birthday by packing a lunch (including a hunk of birthday cake baked by his wife), rode off after deer. Six days late was John Nance Garner in bagging his annual buck; but he was on time at the hunt campfire, where he dished up his special concoction-"Son-of-a-gun stew," which supposedly includes a dash of everything...