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Caught squarely between these opposing forces was President Roosevelt. He had counted on the virtually unanimous support of Labor at the polls in November. But, while cautious William Green clung to A. F. of L.'s nonpartisan tradition and refused to pledge it publicly to the New Deal, bold John Lewis had rushed in to place his industrial unionists solidly behind the President, help organize Labor's Non-Partisan League to work for his reelection. When Franklin Roosevelt gratefully accepted this support, craft unionists began to suspect that he would reward it by siding with John Lewis...
Nevertheless the great Manhattan banking houses of issue through which these debentures had been sold-old Lee, Higginson & Co., old Guaranty Co. of New York, old City Co. of New York-clung to the belief that when Mr. Kreuger had said "secured" he meant, in this instance, "secured." They staffed and supported the protective committee of Mr. Murphy and another formed by Bainbridge Colby and Samuel Untermeyer. These committees sent lawyers to Stockholm, verified the existence of collateral for the debentures, petitioned the Supreme Court of Massachusetts to appoint for its safekeeping a New York trustee. They fought the claims...
...brand of Christianity that he promptly aroused among outraged churchmen the first effective opposition to the Nazi regime that Germany has yet seen (TIME, June 12, 1933 et seq.). Nazi strategists became alarmed. Reichsbischof Müller was robbed of all authority, even deprived of his private automobile. Stubbornly he clung to his title, rode on streetcars. Last week in an elaborate limited edition he published his own version of the Gospel according to St. Matthew...
...Angeles, proud little old Grace Warren Du Bois, "Last of the Warrens," self-styled descendant of William the Conqueror, was accused of murdering her son Dr. Charles Warren Du Bois, 32. The shriveled, plainfaced defendant wearily clung to the rail of the witness box, whispered: "My son was always afraid. I've never been afraid." Dully she insisted that a "mysterious young stranger'' had killed Charles Du Bois while he sat at breakfast. The State contended that Defendant Du Bois, angry at Charles's failure to measure up to his ancestry, had bought a .38 calibre...
...Palm Sunday last week, Pope Pius XI accepted a plaited, elaborately decorated palm branch from a member of the Bresca family of San Remo, which since 1585 has clung to its perquisite of supplying palms to pontiffs. This week, when the rest of Christendom joyously concludes its 40-day Lenten fast, Rome and the Pope were to pass their quietest Easter in years. Because of Sanctions and European unrest, few tourists or pilgrims arrived in Rome for Holy Week. Because of the war in Ethiopia, the faithful who thronged St. Peter's Square on the off-chance the Holy...