Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President sent a letter to the governors and governors-elect of 19 States whose legislatures are meeting or about to meet. He wrote: "Do you not agree with me that ratification of the Child Labor Amendment by the remaining 12 States whose action is necessary to place it in the Constitution is the obvious way to early achievement of our objective? I hope that you will feel that this can be made one of the major items in the legislative program of your State this year." Ordinarily Franklin Roosevelt does not look for endorsement of his sentiments from the quarter...
Between Christmas and New Year, when students have gone home for their midwinter frolic, university scientists are accustomed to put down their textbooks and laboratory tools and go on a busman's holiday. Soberly they attend dozens of conventions, read thousands of papers, talk shop, elect officers, award prizes, take stock of a year's progress, get their names in the newspapers, mingle with a sprinkling of industrial colleagues. Last week geologists convened in Cincinnati, geographers in Syracuse, mathematicians in Durham, N. C., philosophers in Cambridge, astronomers in Frederick, Md. (see p. 52), anthropologists in Washington, chemists...
...history, was made against weak opposition and, by its very magnitude, showed him to belong to the decade, perhaps to the century, not just to one more year. Moreover, political landslides however great are not compassed in the U. S. by just one personality and to re-elect Franklin Roosevelt because the U. S. electorate did would be a gross injustice to his prophet and political teammate, James Aloysius Farley...
...running a poor third for President the year before, "Young Bob" was being eased into his father's Senate seat, Brother Philip was district attorney of Dane county. Old Bob had peered amiably on occasion into the University but when the Republican and Progressive regents got together to elect Editor Frank, then an eloquent young Republican liberal of 37, no La Follette raised a hand to interfere. Next year Phil La Follette was appointed a lecturer in the University Law School. He held that job until he was elected Governor...
...common: labor trouble. Indeed, Detroit newspapers no longer consider a Briggs strike news until it approaches in violence the 1933 walkout which forced Henry Ford to shut down. In the opinion of Labor, working conditions in the Briggs plants are a disgrace to Detroit. When Michigan's Governor-elect Frank Murphy was Detroit's mayor, a citizens' committee was appointed to look into Briggs labor policies with results by no means complimentary to the management. A Motor Products strike ended last summer after ten months of bickering between competing unions, but it failed. Last trouble at Briggs...