Word: cabalism
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...quite a talk with a sub-contractor who gave a little dope on Jim Farley, organized labor and the NRA the other day. This honest man had it right in his simple way. He said that the logical unions were entirely controlled by a small cabal of thieves who blackmailed everybody, including their own members. This isn't five star final material, I know but it simply substantiates an old prejudice of mine to the effect that collective bargaining is all right if honest men are doing the bargaining, but crooked organized labor is a menace to the honest laborer...
...greatest danger in the United States at the present time is the 'cabal of undercover Socialists' known as the 'brain trust.' Representative Hamilton Fish Jr., Republican, of the 26th Congressional District, New York, said last night...
Easter Sunday, falling last week in Rumania according to the Orthodox Church calendar, was to be a great day for a cabal of Rumanian Army officers. Naturally King Carol, his fat little son Michael, his brother Nicholas and Queen Mother Marie, would go to worship in the 270-year-old Cathedral, which stands high above Bucharest's gardens and gilt cupolas. Someone would throw a grenade, another and another into the midst of the royal worshippers. Entirely rid of its eccentric royal family, Rumania would be ready for a military dictatorship. One chore would remain and that would...
Living proof of Senator Harrison's contention was soon furnished in Washington by the assembling of a cabal of cotton farmers' spokesmen represented, with Oklahoma's arch-inflationist Senator Thomas sitting coonily on the sidelines, by South Carolina's Senator Ellison D. Smith and Senator John H. ("Tallulah") Bankhead. More than 100 interested parties attended these caucuses, whose animated membership demanded two things...
...their general strike. Tramcars clanged again, busses rattled, milk wagons resumed their rounds, markets opened and storekeepers finally raised their steel shutters. After a conference with Ambassador Welles, the Provisional President formed a partial Cabinet, with no Secretary of State. Triumphant members of the ABC, the secret anti-Machado cabal formed three years ago to combat the Porra, received four Cabinet posts, with Dr. Joaquin Martinez Saenz, chief of the A B C, as Secretary of the Treasury...