Word: demands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Public Opinion- Biggest development of last week was the first appearance of signs that the public was ready to demand law & order and defend the right to work. In the Mahoning Valley around Youngstown, Ohio sheriffs' deputies made their first serious attempt to disarm pickets who held possession of roads around the steel plants. Meeting one night in Youngstown while pickets under police guard were demonstrating in the street below, the Youngstown city council by vote of 6-to-1 granted Mayor Lionel Evans full authority to increase the police force and buy as much additional equipment...
...Girdler of Republic and President Frank Purnell of Youngstown declined to attend in person but sent deputies to meet with Philip Murray and John Owens of the Steel Workers. Governor Davey proposed a compromise: let the companies sign a labor contract, and let the union promise not to demand the closed shop or checkoff. The meeting was adjourned without result but another was arranged for this week...
...Snell said he was going to demand a Congressional investigation. The Federal Corrupt Practices Act of 1925 forbids any corporation to make a political contribution in any Federal election. Either, he thought, the law had been broken (penalty: for corporations $5,000 fine; for their guilty officers, and for political beneficiaries $1,000 fine, a year in jail) or a loophole had been found which needed plugging. Mr. Early wanted it recorded that when the President filled his idle hours writing his name on pieces of paper, he had no notion that they would be sold to corporate bibliophiles...
...know what is going to happen to you? You are going to have a sudden set of individuals who are shortly going to demand of you that there be a system of examination and application by the Federal Government upon every doctor of America to prove his right to be admitted to practice under the Federal law in addition to that which he is now enjoying under his local [State] acts. And then we will come about to the thing which I am utterly against and wholly abhor but which I tell you is on its way-the designation...
...answer to popular demand there will be two more showings of the Tercentenary Film at the Institute of Geographical Exploration, tomorrow at 10:30 o'clock in the morning and at 2:30 in the afternoon. The program will consist of a new Pathe "short" entitled "John Harvard's Birthplace", the "Harvard Special", and the Tercentenary Film...