Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held by the National Labor Relations Board. Of some 20,000 votes cast, exactly 16,325 were cast for it in preference to A. F. of L.'s drowning International Seamen's Union and International Longshoremen's Association. Most convincing signs of the approach of the chair-warming stage in union development are the 21 long and involved collective agreements which the N. M. U. has concluded for nearly 10,000 of its members. The contracts are mainly with the coal carriers and tankers, including Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Since fall, the union has wrangled...
...more common game birds and animals. Blind, rosy-cheeked Assemblyman Thomas M. Muir of Plainfield asked Assemblywoman Constance W. Hand, sponsor of the bill: "What is a godwit?" Mrs. Hand: "I'm sure I don't know what godwits are." Assembly Speaker Herbert J. Pascoe, from the chair: "They come from North Plainfield." Assemblymen looked the godwit up, found it is a long-legged, long-billed wading bird "much esteemed for the table." The bill was overwhelmingly passed by the Assembly last week after Mrs. Hand, in despair, said: "I'm sure it's a good...
...recent tirade on American education. Indeed, the querulous tone of his criticism seems more indicative of personal resentment of Harvard's belated censure of his conduct than of any real interest in the educational process. Possibly, too, Mr. Lake was impressing Brown University with his qualifications for the chair of Comparative Literature...
...breakfast, at which Governor Earle was entertaining State Democratic Chair man David Lawrence and Philadelphia Leader Matt McCloskey, had been called to celebrate the Guffey machine's decision of the night before on its candidate for Governor in the April primaries. No sooner had Mr. Guffey's followers started congratulating not Thomas Kennedy but an obscure, conservative Pittsburgh law yer named Charles Alvin Jones on his tentative nomination than the excitement be gan. No reporters were present and most of them were unable to describe the scene in detail, but Thomas P. O'Neil of Phila delphia...
...should be raised was not by itself a highly enlightening eco nomic doctrine. But as a political announcement it had force, for it laid at rest conjectures that the Administration was specifically bent on inflation. Professor Roosevelt picked up a slim wooden pointer and, leaning back in his chair, proceeded to elucidate his meaning with nine separate graphs on specific prices...