Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President summoned to the White House Ernest Tener Weir, chairman of Weirton Steel Co. (National Steel), ordered him to settle the labor row in his mills (TIME, Dec. 25). He also received Rev. Charles E. Coughlin of Detroit. When the priest emerged from the White House, he reported: "I discovered that Mr. Roosevelt is about 20 years ahead of the thought that is current in the country today...
Meantime, in San Jose, a grand jury, sure of Governor Rolph's approval, failed to find evidence for indicting participants in the hanging of Kidnappers John Holmes and Thomas Thurmond (TIME, Dec...
Leaving historians to decide what if anything was accomplished at the Seventh Pan-American Conference at Montevideo (TIME, Dec. 11 et seq.), grey and graceful Secretary of State Cordell Hull was by last week completing his leisurely journey back to the U. S. In country after country he stopped to eat the ritual chicken and soothe Latin American sensibilities with smiles and goodwill speeches...
...Eager to embrace the middle-aged man who says he is George V's natural nephew (TIME, Dec. 25), a bevy of fashionably dressed English women turned up in London's famed Old Bailey last week and were kissed in impartial rotation by Prisoner Clarence Guy Gordon-Haddon before he entered the dock...
...pick a new chairman. They settled on George Alfred Ranney, onetime treasurer of International Harvester, now vice chairman of Commonwealth Edison Co. Then they got a shock. From Washington sped a report that Walter Joseph Cummings, head of Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., was to have the job (TIME, Dec. 25). Again Mr. Jones repeated his promises, but by last week Continental Illinois knew that being in Mr. Jones's parlor was like being in the parlor of any other majority stockholder. He would exercise his right -soft speeches or no soft speeches-to name the bank's chairman...