Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rico, but left them convinced that the base was as good as built, at an estimated expenditure of some $4,000,000. Hard fact was that the visitors could not make the decision if they wanted to. That will be up to the U. S. Navy's General Board, the Secretary of the Navy, and Congress. Having persuaded Congress that more bases are needed in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Pacific, the navy is inspecting all available sites (Virgin Islands, the Florida and Texas coasts, etc.), next year will ask for authority and money to expand its defense line...
Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers of America, got the snuffles and took to his bed one day last week. They were lucky snuffles, for they enabled Mr. Martin to postpone a meeting of his international executive board, at which he was in a fair way to lose control...
...Sidney Hillman's dat-for-that accent becomes a cracking sputter. Murray & Hillman burred and sputtered to good effect. Several of Martin's dozen boardmen began to waver. One night Messrs. Murray & Hillman added up their gains, convinced Homer Martin that he might as well convene his board and get it over. He capitulated...
President Martin was allowed to keep his face and office. Messrs. Murray & Hillman were empowered: 1) to "review" the expulsions, decide whether they still think the ousted officers should be reinstated; 2) with Homer Martin and one other board member, to settle future disputes. This arrangement is to continue until next year, when at the union's biennial convention Messrs, Frankensteen, Mortimer, et al. will have a chance to complete the demolition of Homer Martin. C. I. O. having thus taken U. A. W. out of Homer Martin's hands, Murray & Hillman graciously announced that...
...education department's chairman is Julius Hochman, a union vice president and general manager of the N. Y. Dressmakers' Joint Board. Stocky Julius Hochman, shaggy browed and square faced, looks like C. I. O. Leader John L. Lewis, and is himself a product of workers' education. Born in Russia 45 years ago, he went to work at eleven for his father, a tailor. He arrived in Manhattan's garment district at 14, promptly enrolled in night school, later was graduated from Brookwood Labor College. Today he is a lover of painting and chamber music. He helped...