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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Briggs's President William P. Brown declared that he would not require all his 15,000 employes to be in the union. Nevertheless he was willing to discuss exclusive recognition of Mr. Mazey's local as a compromise. This he and Mr. Mazey proceeded to do this week, postponing the union shop issue until bodies again are flowing to Chrysler, Ford, et al. Meantime Mr. Martin, having been squeezed out at Briggs, announced that 66,768 fellow secessionists from C. I. O. had voted to affiliate with A. F. of L. His figure was almost as surprising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Briggs and Bats | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...with white men are noticeable only because they are black or because they blatantly insist on their race's rights. Oscar De Priest and his successor, Arthur Mitchell, only two Negroes elected to the U. S. Congress since Reconstruction, rated far below average in ability. Not so Homer Brown. Quiet, effective, popular, he is sought out by his white colleagues for his opinions on constitutional law-which is his heavyweight hobby. That attribute, plus his oratorical persuasiveness, pegs him as the lower house's most influential member on nonpartisan legislation. No stooge for his party, Homer Brown voted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Ablest | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...last few years that no longer did such grimacing register in Paris, certainly not in London. There, instead of pondering over the combined Italian-German military might, crowds stood before bookstore windows and gazed at maps of Soviet Russia, commenting approvingly on the size of the great brown expanse. Brokers were calling the advance in stock prices the Stalin Boom. Movie audiences were applauding newsreels of the Red army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Boo! | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Meantime in Cleveland the 151st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. got out the brown paper and string, showed itself ready & willing to make a neat bundle: itself, the Presbyterian Church of the U. S. (Southern) and the Protestant Episcopal Church. Aggregate membership of this big bundle: about 4,500,000. The Assembly formally invited the Southern Church, split off by slavery in 1861, to rejoin it. It approved a concordat, drawn up last year by Presbyterian and Episcopal commissions, for cooperation between the two churches, beginning in local congregations (TIME, Feb. 6). As Moderator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bundle, No Bundle | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

JUDAS, INCORPORATED-Kurt Steel-Little, Brown ($2). While tracking down the murderer of a Connecticut industrialist, case-hardened Hank Hyer comes between two rival strikebreaking agencies. Tops for the tough type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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