Word: excerpt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many of the Governor's bills are directly aimed. Republican Warren T. Thayer had been chairman of the State Senate's potent Public Service Committee when he wrote the letters about six years ago. Today he is a minority member and Republican whip on the Senate floor. Excerpt from one of his letters...
...center of the biggest fight ever staged in this country between employer and employee groups, is the list of "unfair labor practices" which can be held by the suggested national labor law to be violative of the provisions of the proposed law. Here is an excerpt from the section which crystallizes the whole controversy...
...intimate advice given American industry over a national network of broadcasting stations, but the language of his address goes into the records and business men today were re-reading it to see that the General really went as far as he did. Here is the excerpt which will be used from coast to coast by labor organizers in what may precipitate all sorts of strikes and controversies...
...newsstands a successor to his defunct Iconoclast-a weekly called Rice's Financial Watchtower, 25? the copy. Just what George Graham Rice will watch from his tower was not clear, but his sheet is "millitant and pro-Roosevelt." Leading editorial in the first issue: "POWER & RESPONSIBILITY." Excerpt: "Any man who wields power without recognizing his responsibility is a menace. Big Finance has been that. . . . [The Big Financiers] have cut away the sand from under their own feet and have dug their graves. In another year or so new laws and rapidly moulding public opinion will have pushed them into...
...circular the receivers had distributed to bondholders, he countered with a $2,000,000 libel suit. He hired press-agents and mailed to bondholders his own pamphlet with a full text of his suits. a quotation on corporate reorganization from The New Republic and another personal appeal. Excerpt: "I understand that Eastern Bankers and the Receivers . . . are evolving a scheme to seize the properties of our company for a mere fraction of their value. . . . Heartless Financial Giants ... and their allied Newsprint competitive company have marked us for their prey. . . ." Edward Wellington Backus was taken to the Minnesota prairies...