Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acknowledge receipt of yours of July 23rd. ... "In view of your conviction that your duty as chairman of the National Democratic Committee will monopolize your time . . . and on account of the importance to the corporation as well as to yourself of making it unmistakably clear that the corporation takes no part in political affairs, we are constrained to accept your request to be relieved of all your duties in connection with the corporation. . . . "Sincerely yours, "Alfred P. Sloan...
...President Sloan of General Motors made it clear, too, that Finance Chairman Raskob of General Motors was unanimously expected to resume his business duties when Democratic Chairman Raskob's job was over. But he reiterated that all General Motors officers, employes, dealers, stockholders were free to stand politically as each thought best. This emphasis, in both letters, made people doubt that too-much-work was the cause underlying the Raskob withdrawal. People said that the cause was pressure from within General Motors, notably perhaps from the six Fisher Brothers (bodies), four of whom are General Motors directors...
...entirely within its rights in determining for itself what shall be the qualification for citizens who cast votes in primary elections held under its auspices. The suits were brought, of course, by Negroes who asked that the Democrats be enjoined from barring out Negroes. The decisions made it clear that the Democrats had discovered the simplest method yet of disfranchising Negroes. Certificates from Democratic primaries in the South are virtually the same as election certificates, so ubiquitously preponderant is the party. Where any rising tide of black Republican votes may occur, white concern for the all-white ticket is calculated...
...opinion. Friends of Exile Trotsky put forth a printed broadside containing the following appeal: "We raise before the Sixth Congress of the Communist Internationale the question of restoring us to our party. . . . "The banishment of us, soldiers of the October Revolution and comrades in arms of Lenin, is a clear proof of the retrograde movements taking place in the country. ... It is a question of preserving the dictatorship of the proletariat, won in October 1917. "We will not surrender the October Revolution to the politics of Stalin-the entire essence of which is contained in these few words: . . . capitalism...
...that it would award a suitable pension to the widow of Martyr Noguchi. Another distinguished yellow fever worker is Dr. Aristides Agramonte, native of Havana, Cuba. He is the sole surviving member of the heroic Army Commission of the U. S., which in 1900 went into Cuba determined to clear up the mystery of yellow fever. They submitted their bodies to the bite of infected mosquitoes and established beyond dispute that yellow fever is transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes of the species Stegomyia fasciata. But the commission was unable to identify the germ. Since then there have been...