Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In convention at Springfield, Ill. last week assembled the National Federation of Federal Employes, an independent union competing with A. F. of L. and C. I. O. for the nation's 800,000 Government employes. To the N. F. F. E. delegates President Roosevelt dispatched a message, conceding the...
Main item of interest at last week's convention was the railroad built by the Detroit club on a scale of 17/64 inch to the foot. It is powered by 18-volt direct current, has 1,500 ft. of rolled steel tracks laid 1¼ in. apart, a 9...
U. S. Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, director general of the Loyal Order of Moose, spoke to a Moose convention in Chicago. Said he: "One of the most significant developments . . . in the last quarter of a century is the apartment house. Few influences make the average person more superficial...
Carroll Miller's experience had given him practically no knowledge of railroads, and railroad men therefore considered him the weakest I. C. C. member. Today they give him credit for being serious and hard-working and since he is now I. C. C. chairman (by virtue of annual rotation...
The Bureau, tottering along on meagre appropriations, had not been able to make much progress in the direction of Conservation when, in 1934, President Roosevelt finally gave ear to the agonized howls of 7½ million sportsmen. He appointed a Committee on Wildlife Restoration. The Committee promptly recommended that $25...