Word: boardmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vital. But that question alone did not move him to act last week. The President was in a peculiar and exasperating position. For on him, to his pained surprise, was hung the tag of J. P. Morgan & Co. Mr. Stettinius and at least three of his fellow boardmen, it was being said, were present or onetime minions of the House of Morgan. By itself this circumstance would have been a nine-day wonder to be pondered and forgotten, along with Mr. Roosevelt's sundry other and short-lived flirtations with Business. What made it a crumb under the President...
Thus disorganization was crowned with confusion. Having kicked out U. A. W.'s five vice presidents and all but nine of its 24 executive board members, Mr. Martin had just been deserted by five more boardmen and so many local officers that everybody lost count. The deserters, of course, went over to Acting President Roland...
...Murray and blacktopped, jumpy Mr. Hillman proposed to save U. A. W. by reinstating the expelled officers and having future disputes settled by C. I. O. executives (meaning Lewis, Murray, Hillman). Rather than lose face, Homer Martin rejected "the Lewis plan," called upon his majority of twelve supposedly loyal boardmen to back...
...battle heat, Scotsman Murray's burred goddams can be softly terrible, Lithuanian-born 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...
Back in the prison hospital, where Warden Holohan lay seriously hurt, the convict leader died. To the shock of Boardmen Atherton, Stephens and Sykes was added chagrin when the recaptured convicts confessed that it was Clyde Stevens who had smuggled their guns into the prison. Next day on a swampy island in the Sacramento River, police caught Bandit Stevens...