Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nomination than Herbart Hoover was at this same time in 1928. It's all over but calling the roll, in my opinion." Thus did a prominent Republican politician of Massachusetts sum, up the pre-convention situation, as Grand Old Partizans of New England prepare to entrain for the Cleveland Convention, which opens June...
...Cleveland's vast Municipal Auditorium, but in a smaller chamber than Republicans will occupy for their national convention next week, another party last week held a convention. On the walls, in true political style, hung Gargantuan portraits of the party's departed heroes: Morris Hillquit, Victor Berger, Eugene V. Debs, Karl Marx. The Socialist Convention which assembled below these familiar images was no peace gathering. Not since 1919, when the party split over allegiance to the Third International had it been so divided...
...after a bitter struggle, got the party to adopt a radical platform including "mass resistance" to war, last year agreed to a "united front" with Communists in such specific matters as May Day parades, demonstrations against Fascism and support of the unemployed. The Left's Left went to Cleveland last week already in control of the party's National Executive Committee, in possession of a big majority of the convention's delegates...
...rather have used the phrase 'dictatorship of the pro letariat' if they had dared." Weakest faction was the Left's Centre, led by Mayor Daniel Webster Hoan of Milwaukee, whose chief desire was for peace-in-the-party. No aid to peace was the presence at Cleveland of Earl Browder, head of the U. S. Communist party, who appeared with a polite proposal that the Communists and Socialists unite on a ticket for 1936 to be headed by Norman Thomas and Earl Browder. To this Mr. Thomas turned a cold shoulder, preferring if possible to avoid...
Assembled in Cleveland last week for a two-day annual convention was that exclusive little trade organization, the Associated Stock Exchanges. It has only 22 members, though the full roster of U. S. stockmarkets including the Honolulu Stock Exchange and the Manila Stock Exchange numbers 30.* Out of that total 21 are registered with the Securities & Exchange Commission as "national securities exchanges." The rest, largely local in character, enjoy temporary exemption pending SEC investigation. Even among registered markets only two are really national institutions-the New York Stock Exchange, which accounts for about 86% of the total dollar volume...