Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the national convention of the American Political Science Association in Philadelphia last week. Thomas R. Powell, Langdell Professor of Law, predicted some curtailment of the Supreme Court's role in constitutional interpretation in the near future.
Published last autumn by Bobbs-Merrill Co. was a $2.50 volume called Labor Spy, purporting to be the autobiography of a crack operative who spent 20 years at his trade. Apparently he found it healthy to retire to a Canadian farm to write under his old detective agency designation GT...
The scene had shifted from Washington to Chicago's bustling Hotel Sherman, to the 19th convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation. There two men who have written most of the farm legislation of the New Deal finally saw the parting of their ways at hand.
To review its record and ponder its future the S. W. O. C. last week held its first national convention in Pittsburgh. Since S. W. O. C. is not a union but an organizing group headed by Philip Murray, the convention was, in effect, a policy-making body made up...
But although many a potent steelman considers the union a blessing, S. W. O. C. contracts begin to expire in February, starting with Big Steel, and the fact that the steel industry is operating at only 27% of capacity will not assist their renewal on terms favorable to the union...