Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back soon after the play to sit in my window and look down on the river bank, with the open cars whizzing down the drive, the reflections of the street lamps peering out of the black water, and the hatless girls ambling along stalking their nocturnal prey...
...announcing the event to the press an ample attendance of newshawks and cameramen as well as a batch of clergymen and investigators of Senator La Toilette's civil liberties committee was insured. At the appointed time, Organizer Richard Truman Frankensteen, head of the U.A.W. Ford drive, accompanied by his lieutenant, Walter Reuther and Organizers Robert Kanter and J. J. Kennedy, appeared. Leader Frankensteen, a husky 30 and a onetime football player (University of Dayton), led his friends up a long flight of stairs to the overpass to supervise the handbills' issuance. He was smiling for photographers...
...strikers (TIME, March 1), made equally difficult the job of feeding company men in the plants. Soon Republie had airplanes shuttling back and forth, landing in the yard of one plant, dropping food on others where landing was not possible. Airplanes of the strikers performed fancy aerobatics trying to drive off the company planes. Soon feeling on both sides was bitter. The strikers swore that no food should be taken into the plants until all company men were withdrawn. They in turn were charged with firing from the ground on planes bearing food...
...undertake a simultaneous organizing drive on all fronts to offset C. I. O.'s rapid membership gains...
Allied is fighting block-booking by both national and State legislation. Before Congress in Washington is the Neely-Pettengill bill which outlaws block-booking. Last year the bill stuck in committee. This year Lawyer Abram Fern Myers, onetime chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, is trying to drive it through. Meanwhile Al Steffes is leading the drive for State legislation to outlaw block-booking and to divorce theatre ownership from producers and distributors. Such bills of divorcement bogged down in Ohio, Minnesota, Michigan, Nebraska and Illinois. One did pass in North Dakota, where it goes into effect in a year...