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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The past few days, reading again in TIME and LITE the accounts of the annual American Legion Convention, I am moved to wonder (as I often have before) by what stretch of the imagination one could justify the cities where those brawls are held in allowing the roughnecks who attend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 25, 1937 | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

"We find on the one hand," reported the resolutions committee at the A. F. of L. convention in Denver last fortnight, "the dominating and fulminating Caesar of the C. I. O. marching his Roman legions to the White House with bludgeoning threats, while on the other hand we find the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Peace or Plot? | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

For once an A. F. of L. spokesman had turned out a brand of invective as good as that of John L. Lewis. The report, attributed to the pens of little Matthew Woll and'John P. Frey and adopted by a convention vote of 25,616 to 1,227...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Peace or Plot? | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

Since John Lewis had a pretty good hunch that something like this would happen at Denver, he scheduled a national conference of all 32 constituent C. I. O. unions which opened last week in Atlantic City's Hotel President, where the C. I. O. was conceived at the A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Peace or Plot? | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

To get a Democratic nomination in Arkansas is under normal circumstances tantamount to election. All Arkansas' Governor Carl Edward Bailey needed to do was to call a primary election which he could almost certainly have won. Instead, last August he chose what then appeared to be the even less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARKANSAS: Bailey v. Miller | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

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