Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overnight C. I. O. Leaders Lewis & Hillman formed Labor's Non-Partisan League. To give it a New Deal flavor, they invited in as president George L. Berry, custodian of the Blue Eagle's bones. That the sole objective of the Non-Partisan League was to re-elect Franklin Roosevelt should, Messrs. Lewis, Hillman & Berry declared, "be sufficiently clear to anyone...
...delegates and alternates represented about 25 states. The great majority boarded at tourist camps and lodgings. Poor but loud, they burst into a 17-minute demonstration when Father Charles Edward Coughlin first appeared to "democratize ' his Union, hitherto a one-man show, put steam into its campaign to elect Representative William Lemke U. S. President in November...
...that, after the Memphis conferences, Senator McKellar one morning in mid-July announced that his candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor was Burgin Estel Dossett, East Tennessee schoolteacher. Dossett was also the candidate of the present State Administration headed by Governor Hill McAlister, whom Boss Crump helped to elect. Six hours later Boss Crump announced: "We, what is generally known as the city and county crowd, will support Gordon Browning for Governor believing he is honestly the best...
Said Dr. John Howell Janeway Upham, dean of Ohio State University College of Medicine, president-elect of the American Medical Association: "It is an exceptional case which has no bearing on the future of childbearing or on the method of child delivery." Said Dr. Morris Fishbein, publicist of the A. M. A.: "Hypnotism has been used repeatedly for many years in an endeavor to alleviate the pains of childbirth, but has not been found successful except in the case of hysterical individuals who have been repeatedly hypnotized and are therefore especially amenable to the power of suggestion." Dr. Kanter...
...Providence the Zionists adopted a resolution demanding arms for Palestine Jews, another condemning Jewish Communists for inciting disorder in the homeland. Then they adjourned, many of them still marveling that they had managed to elect Rabbi Wise their leader. That head of Manhattan's Free Synagog has a large collection of enemies and critics, most of them Jews who dislike the American Jewish Congress, of which he is president. Dedicated to the principle of holding periodic World Jewish Congresses, the U. S. group elected delegates last month who in Geneva next month will probably elect Rabbi Wise their world...