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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...often and greatly against U. S. Labor, did not blame Labor for making a whipping boy of the sinner, did not mind hearing C. I. O. denounce their publisher bosses. All were prepared to dine amicably on the fourth evening with John L. Lewis, who wished to salute the biggest outpouring of correspondents accorded any convention since the Democratic National Convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: C.I.O. (CIO) | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...probable successor to John Lewis has steadily increased; wise, adroit Sidney Hillman, to whom Mr. Murray absentmindedly referred as "second vice president." (The two are supposedly equal.) Secretary˜Shy, brilliant James Barren Carey, 27, whose United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers have one of the most vigorous and biggest of the younger C.I.O. unions. Mr. Lewis, who considers little Mr. Carey the best of C.I.O.'s youngsters, maneuvered his election as a salute to them. Mr. Carey thereupon dashed home to Manhattan, where his wife was expecting a baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: C.I.O. (CIO) | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...Reich's biggest pogrom last week continued and expanded. Their present hunger and oppression was not all that Jews needed to fear. They seemed to have no future but hunger and oppression. The Führer and Chancellor made it known through trusted Nazis that in all probability Germany will rebuff all offers by the Great Powers to organize emigration of Jews from the Reich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Woe to the Jews! | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...convention into an uproar. Amid screaming and fainting women, police arrived and dragged the drunks off to jail. There, when.it transpired that the whiskey was coffee, the jag a joke, the four students were let off. Said one of them: ''It was the biggest act of my career, and before the most unsympathetic audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Show Business: Nov. 28, 1938 | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...biggest problems that Hodder faces this season will be that of replacing holes made in the Crimson defense by the graduation of Traff Hicks, Gene Emerson, and Russ Allen, last year's captain. Charlie Houghton is the only returning letterman from last year's defense, although two Juniors, Forbes and Bill Coleman, both saw service last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOCKEY OPENER NEARS WITH FEW MEN PLACED | 11/26/1938 | See Source »

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