Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distress Mr. Martin telephoned C. I. O. Vice Presidents Sidney Hillman and Philip Murray, the overseers installed by John Lewis to suppress factionalism in U. A. W. They went to Detroit, last week got the board to call a special convention for March 20 in Cleveland. Object: to let the rank & file end the row by throwing out one faction or the other...
Then events followed fast. Homer Martin had requested such a convention, but he denounced it, charging that the terms of the call gerrymandered it against him. So he issued his own call for a convention and suspended 15 board members including Messrs. Frankensteen. Mortimer and potent little Walter Reuther of Detroit. They retaliated by impeaching him. He caught them napping. Early one morning he and a dozen huskies marched into U. A. W. headquarters, seized the union records and bank books, locked the offices, transferred everything to Mr. Martin's suite in the Eddystone Hotel...
...need to declare a Republic of Ireland. . . . There is no need to reaffirm the declaration of Irish independence. The hour has come for a supreme effort to make both effective, so in the name of the unconquered dead and the faithful living we pledge ourselves to the task. . . . We call upon the people of Ireland ... to assist us in the efforts we are about to make in God's name...
...Plans call for the building of a tramway, a 50-room lodge at the summit, an observation platform, a concessions building and a series of over-night cabius on the mountain top. There will be numerous trails for the expert and the novice skier, a bob-sled run, a ski jump, a skating rink, a toboggan slide, and open slopes...
...going to be all right. Then tempers (except Bello's) began to burn out. Two Jewish members of the crew reminded the German captain that the Metha Nelson was a ship, not a Nazi concentration camp. He tossed them in the brig. Shore police at various ports of call tossed the rest of the crew in jail for getting drunk. Captain Hoffmann got them out. At sea the crew talked mutiny. In Guatemala the two Jews quit the ship. Bello did not mind. He asked the Captain to marry him to Nurse Husby...