Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This Man is Mine is a pipsqueak problem play afflicted with banality and complications. Typical speech (Bellamy to Cummings): "You and I belong to each other...
...Today, Nazi groups have been formed in Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Manhattan; they have upwards of 6.000 members; they hold meetings, collect dues, wear Nazi uniforms and sometimes drill in turnhallen; members of the League of Friends of the New Germany pledge: "I do not belong to any secret organization of any kind [Freemasons, etc.]. I am of Aryan descent, free of Jewish or colored racial traces"; their political ideal "is organically conceived and consequently the very antithesis of liberal Democratic ideas. Believing in the authority of leadership . . . we advocate a state of truly sovereign authority...
Thus A. F. of L. union members will bargain through their A. F. of L. leaders. The question of what employes belong to what unions will be determined by the Board of Three. But the automobile companies may (according to possible interpretation of the terms of the agreement) bargain separately with the different groups, including their own company unions. Finally, in hiring and firing, "individual skill and efficient service" as well as family status and seniority, will be considered first and impartiality between the unions second...
...bodies would fall were about 150 Hernandoans who did not mind getting up early for such an occasion. As the noose was put around the neck of the first Negro, Isaac Howard, he said: ''Tell others of my kind never to attack none who don't belong to them. I believe in God." Then he began to sing "The Other Shore." The sheriff sprang the trap. Isaac Howard plunged through the floor, his song ended. Said the sheriff: "That bastard won't bother you any more." Said Father Collins, "Hell no!" In the hall below someone...
Fifth Avenue Bus. Still another type of election trouble started in Manhattan. Fifth Avenue Coach Co. has long boasted of its fairness and liberal dealing with its employes, 98% of whom are supposed to belong to a company union. Early in February the A. F. of L. union distributed circulars calling the men to strike. Only one of its 1,450 employes quit. The A. F. of L. union appealed to the Regional Labor Board, headed by Mrs. Eleanore M. Herrick, to call an election. She ordered an election and invited the company to send official representatives to the polling...