Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secondary consideration to the organization [of non-union workers] . . . The A. F. of L. is still in control of a small group of leaders firmly entrenched, reactionary in their attitude on public affairs, tolerant of many evils in the A. F. of L. . . . The C. I. O. board is unanimously convinced that the A. F. of L. is following a 'rule or ruin' policy...
...with neither union in plants where both claim bargaining rights, big General Motors agreed to dicker with both when & if they can agree on representation by a common shop committee. Sadly aware that intra-union feuding has frittered away its union's active membership, the C. I. O. board planned a reorganization drive to regain lost ground, push Homer Martin clear out of the industry...
...Instead of one man, the House called for a WPA administration board of three, bipartisan, to ensure against WPA's being wielded as a political sledgehammer. This simple provision was an indictment aimed at Harry Hopkins...
...Japan's puppet government at Peking was killed in the British Concession at Tientsin. Japanese military authorities at Tientsin named four Chinese as the murderers, demanded that they be handed over. The British asked for evidence; the Japanese produced none. While the British proposed that an arbitration board headed by a U. S. chairman mediate the matter, the Japanese talked of anti-Japanese terrorists being deliberately harbored in the Concession. At 6 a. m. one day last week they ended their talk by surrounding not only the British but the French Concession with their soldiers. The French Concession...
School officials promptly suspended 18 of Melvin Bridge's assailants, four of his avengers. A grand jury found Rosen guiltless, let him go. Baltimore's School Board started an investigation of anti-Semitic activities in Baltimore's schools; Jewish David Emrich Weglein, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and a 'group of prominent Jewish citizens followed suit...