Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knew you were a gentleman." Just before the Steel Mediation Board adjourned Tom Girdler hurried off to Washington to testify before the Senate Post Offices Committee on C.I.O. interference with the mails, a subject which the committee later voted to drop. In fighting fettle, the tightlipped, hooknosed, bespectacled steelman put on an exciting show. Having read a spiced-up version of the statement given to the Mediation Board, Mr. Girdler immediately opened up on Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey, no member of the Post Offices Committee but on hand for a morning of Girdler-baiting. The Committee had understood from...
Would he sign if the Labor Board ruled that he must? "I would not care what they ruled because that...
...benefit of a few handpicked newshawks. Earlier efforts by reporters to arrange an open press conference collapsed when Mr. Girdler is said to have learned that Columnist Heywood Broun planned to attend. Even at his private conference Mr. Girdler got into hot water. Calling the Mediation Board "incompetent and unfair," he asked: "Who is Taft? He is a man who likes to talk about the things his father did. Who is Ed McGrady? He is Fannie Perkins' and John Lewis' office boy." After this appeared in print Mr. Girdler hastily telephoned Mr. Taft, explained that he had only...
Boom. The smart board of political strategy which has advised Governor Earle consists of Senator Guffey and of David L. Lawrence, who is the Governor's Secretary of the Commonwealth and patronage dispenser. Although Mr. Guffey bosses the machine, Governor Earle does not always obey him. This year, for example, he backed a bill for adding an extra brakeman to freight and passenger train crews. Labor wanted it but Senator Guffey, who is campaigning for lower freight rates on coal, opposed it. With the aid of David Lawrence, the Governor got the Legislature to pass...
...NEVILLE BOSSES THE CABINET: MINISTERS MUST REPORT DAILY" headlined the Referee, with considerable truth, as certain statesmen in Whitehall admitted off the record to friends this week. "Mr. Neville Chamberlain," continued the Referee, "is running the Cabinet as though it were a board meeting with himself as Managing Director of Britain Ltd. And the Cabinet members don't like...