Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Career: Son of a lawyer and officer in the Confederate Army who was disfranchised and impoverished after the Civil War, William G. McAdoo was a messenger, clerk, handyman, worked his way during his three years at the University of Tennessee. While he was reading law in Chattanooga, he got into...
The punished replied that Homer Martin had conspired with an anti-Stalin Communist named Jay Lovestone to "control and administer the affairs of the union," exhibited correspondence purporting to prove it. The quartet explained that they did not appear at the hearing to lodge these charges because 150 guards patrolled...
¶ Officials of the Jewish War Veterans of the U. S., in Detroit to arrange their national convention, declined an offer from Ford Motor Co. of automobiles for the use of delegates, called on Henry Ford to reject the Supreme Order of the German Eagle awarded him by Hitler'...
On display were 50,000 musical instruments worth $2,000,000- stock in trade of 500 exhibitors at the 37th annual convention of the National Association of Music Merchants. In spite of a slump during the first half of the year, the merchants predicted that the total volume of business...
Lawyers, the most articulate group in the U. S. Business community, have long been leading critics (partly pro, but mostly con) of the New Deal. Last week about 5,000 of the country's 175,000 lawyers attended the annual convention of the American Bar Association in Cleveland. At...