Word: diehardism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merely grew older, stodgier. He refused to see that it does not take years of apprenticeship to teach a man to screw two nuts on a Ford chassis as it passes him in straight-line production. So the A. F. of L.'s membership continues to be a diehard association of specialist craftsmen, for which industry has less & less use. On his death bed Gompers petulantly directed his membership to support the Presidential candidacy of the late Robert Marion La Follette, thus disregarding the non-partisan pledge of the Federation's first constitution. Samuel Gompers did not even...
Died. Vintila Bratianu, 63, onetime (1926-28) Premier of Rumania, bitterest foe of King Carol, last diehard of the Liberal Party; of an apoplectic stroke; at his estate near Bucharest...
...League of Nations' Committee on the Court, anxious to have even temporary U. S. participation, approved the Root Formula eagerly (TIME, April 1 1929). But Senate diehard opponents of the Court hoped the President would keep the matter on his desk for a long time. Last week Floorleader Watson said he would support everything else the President had proposed, but would fight entering the Court as he had fought it since "before he (Mr. Hoover) was even Secretary of Commerce." Senator Moses of New Hampshire, perhaps meaning to give notice of a "concealed" filibuster against ratification, quoted the Bible...
Died. Alan Ian Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland, 50, grandson of the 8th Duke of Argyll, a diehard Conservative in the House of Lords, part owner of the London Morning Post, after long illness; in London...