Word: deferments
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...smaller sitdowns, threatened to hold the meeting without a permit. Homer Martin, head of the union, said he would call a general strike. He said the union would secure the recall of Mayor Frank Couzens (son of the late Senator James Couzens). Mayor Couzens yielded, got the union to defer the mass meeting till 5:45, advised firms in the office buildings on Cadillac Square to dismiss their workers early. Save for groups of strikers trooping to their rendezvous, the heart of Detroit was almost deserted at rush hour...
...Should the United Lutheran Church defer to progress and allow women on its boards and bureaus? The delegates stepped forward first by making the Women's Missionary Society an official body, later voting women eligible to the governing bodies...
...said, "I . . . share with hundreds of thousands of our people the doubt as to the value of the evidence that placed (Hauptmann) in the Lindbergh nursery on the night of the crime . . ." Although he has at the present time stronger doubts than ever, he does not intend to defer the execution again...
...United Kingdom" it is "impossible" for him to bear the title Edward VIII. He is, the Scots stubbornly contended, King Edward II of the United Kingdom, since England's first six Edwards were Kings neither of Scotland nor of the United Kingdom. In many things His Majesty must defer to his Scottish subjects. Indeed the first act of any British Monarch after his accession is to take the oath by which he swears to defend the Church of Scotland. Last week's row about "Edward II," however, was simply ignored by Edward VIII. He officially designated his mother...
Hierarchy. The Cardinal-Archbishops of Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston did not go to Cleveland. By a sort of gentlemen's agreement, the Princes of the Church in the U. S. defer politely to whichever of their number is official representative at a function. But the Cleveland Congress brought out the rest of the U. S. hierarchy in almost full force. Present were 5.000 priests. 2.000 monsignori, 90 of the 120 bishops. 13 of the 18 archbishops. Notably present were: Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani. Apostolic Delegate to the U. S.; Cincinnati's gentle Archbishop McNicholas. Legion of Decency founder...