Word: denver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Denver, Colo...
While the high commands of the two great U. S. labor forces were assembled in simultaneous convention last month- A. F. of L. in Denver, C.I.O. in Atlantic City-they agreed in a sudden exchange of insulting telegrams to hold a formal peace conference. Last week the two delegations met in Washington-three men from A. F. of L., ten from C.I.O. From the start the conference seemed doomed. Superstitious reporters noted that the delegates numbered 13. Even the site of the conference, the creaky old Willard Hotel, was inauspicious, for the Willard itself is involved in one of those...
...police ("in hard times a dollar or two or even a drink may be enough"). More difficult arrangements are handled by a fixer who works through the complaining witness, the prosecutor (by trading cases), the bailiff (who forges vacating orders), or the judge. So efficient are fixers that Denver's Ed Blonger for many years kept all his clients out of jail. Chicago's celebrated pickpocket, Eddie Jackson, was arrested "thousands of times," convicted only four times, twice because of factional fights between his political friends...
...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 Machiavelli of the same C. I. O. pursuing the methods typical of that old master of cunning and conniving, working through the catacombs of politics, pouring oil upon the troubled machinery of national politics so that where the one smashes through in ruthless effort at conquest, the other follows after with...
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. F. of L.'s historic 1935 convention...