Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The President's dissociation of wages and prices was sound strategy as an appeal-sounder, if less realistic, than the way John L. Lewis linked them inseparably at his United Mine Workers' convention (see p. 11). But when reporters started to ask the President if he meant to...
High point of big, amiable, 54-year-old Frederick Steiwer's eleven years as a U. S. Senator was his keynote speech at the Republican National Convention of 1936 on the "Three Long Years" of the New Deal. Since then Fred Steiwer has been notable chiefly as one of...
Constitution Hall, the only auditorium in Washington big enough for the biennial convention of the United Mine Workers of America, is owned by the Daughters of the American Revolution. There John L. Lewis' miners met in 1936, there they expected to meet this year-until a few weeks ago...
But the premises do not make the convention. There was little hyperbole in President Lewis' opening speech saying: "The United Mine Workers of America in this year of 1938 stand unrivaled as an organization of labor, unparalleled in its strength and in its resources, rich in the loyalty in...
But there was a suggestion of a smirk on John Lewis' big face when he congratulated the miners for helping re-elect "the only President in our lifetime who has tried to give a square deal to the common people of this country." The President's regrets to...