Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Lewis threatened to kick Miner Green out of the United Mine Workers for "treason." Since Mr. Green's home town local, whose financial secretary is Mr. Green's brother, would probably stand by him, Mr. Lewis proposed to try him before the International's executive board, later before the full Mine Workers' convention -where Mr. Lewis could employ to the utmost his flair for good theatre...
...them copies of a 4,000 word defense he was sending to Washington. Denying the treason charge "unqualifiedly and without equivocation," Miner Green spoke over Miner Lewis' head to the rank& file and their pocketbooks. He asked as a union "stockholder" by what authority the U. M. W. board had loaned $2,000,000 to C. I. O., adding: "It is a serious matter to stockholders when the entire tax for six months, every penny and every dime, is turned over to the C. I. O. for other purposes...
...Enplane" appeared in print 15 years ago in England as emplane, was Americanized into its present easier form, means "to board an aircraft...
University of Minnesota Regent Pierce Butler (now an Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court) picked up the telephone in his Minneapolis law office one September day in 1917, angrily demanded that University President Marion LeRoy Burton call the Board of Regents together at once. A young law clerk in Butler's office named Elmer Austin Benson pricked up his ears when he heard his chief shout the name "Schaper...
Into the oak-paneled board room marched the regents once again, listened to a letter from Governor Benson requesting that they right an old injustice. "We cannot suffer a precedent to stand, under which, during periods of hysteria, honorable teachers are humiliated and dismissed in disgrace because their views happen not to coincide with the views of those in power." With only one dissenting vote-that of Fred B. Snyder, president of the board in 1917 and now-the board rescinded the 1917 dismissal, voted Professor Schaper $5,000 as salary for the year 1917-18. Because...