Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proposals made by Joseph P. Kennedy in his monumental report on U. S. shipping (TIME, Nov. 22) to amend the Maritime Act. Most controversial of the proposals is special maritime labor legislation modeled on the Railway Labor Act. Last week Dr. Copeland succeeded in stirring up a first-class...
...Moscow last week Joseph Stalin wrote a letter calling upon the working class of the capitalist world to organize for the support of the Russian "working class." First reply to this appeal came from a U. S. working man who is as comfortably fixed as any Soviet Commissar -little Matthew Woll, vice president of the American Federation of Labor. Cried Matty Woll: "The Soviet regime deserves no more support from organized labor in democratic countries than do the Governments of Hitler and Mussolini. . . .The American Federation of Labor rejects as impudent Stalin's appeal for support...
...that the best ski jumpers in the world are developed in Norway. Last week, when 9,000 ski enthusiasts gathered in the little town of Brattleboro, Vt. to witness the ski-jumping championship of the U. S., the entry list looked like an Oslo telephone directory. Sprinkled among the Class A competitors were a few native Americans but the majority were Norwegians sojourning in the U. S. A dozen or so were topflight, but the performer the crowd had really come to see was Birger Ruud, the No. 1 product of Norway's extraordinary ski-training system...
Born in St. Louis in 1888 and a member of the famed Harvard class of 1910 (Columnist Walter Lippmann, Economist Stuart Chase, Radical John Reed, etc.), Eliot left the U. S. in 1914, settled in England, eventually became a British subject...
This is our last opportunity to express our will as a class. We the undersigned are tired of being asked to vote time after time since our Freshman Union Committee days for the same conglomeration of quasi-representative names. Now as Seniors we are asked to swallow the final cup of hemlock, rendering us dead to our rights and privileges, the great mass of us merely so many votes to be mechanically considered by that mastermind, the nominating committee, the answer to the dreams of a power-crazed Stalin...