Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary ($10,000); late First Cousin (mother's side) Warren Delano Robbins, Minister to Canada ($10,000); late Fifth Cousin, Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary to the Navy ($10,000); Mrs. Irene de Bruyn Robbins (Warren Delano Robbins' widow), assistant chief of the State Department's Foreign Service Buildings Office ($6,500). Two others, Uncle Frederick A. Delano (Vice-Chairman of National Resources Committee & Chairman of National Park & Planning Commission), and Cousin William A. Delano (member of National Park & Planning Commission) hold honorary posts without...
...Sabath, 72, is not forceful. Gossip in Washington last week was that he might be asked, as a good New Deal soldier, to step aside and let a stronger man take the great Rules chair -perhaps a veteran drafted from some other committee like California's Lea (Interstate & Foreign Commerce), New York's Cullen (No. 2 on Ways & Means, Tammany manager in the House, but tractable), or Virginia's Drewry (Democratic Congressional Committee). In Chicago, Mr. Sabath, who was born in what later became Czechoslovakia, hopefully said: "Whatever power I can wield [as chairman] will be used...
...Medicine 60; Teaching 47; Business Administration 33; Journalism 16; Chemistry 15; Writing 12; Politics and Public Service 11; Foreign Service 10; Engineering 10; Chemical Engineering 8; Ministry...
Next come the money makers, 33 of them, who plan to enter business administration, but after that there is another turn away from lucrative professions as 16 go for journalism, 15 for chemistry, 12 for "writing", 11 for politics or public service and 10 each for the foreign service and engineering...
During the Christmas vacation Harvard workers antagonistic to the invasion of the Yard by a foreign organization formed their own union and openly combated the A. F. of L. By this time the waitresses unit, A. F. of L. number 112 and cooks number 186 feared that workers in their ranks might go over to the other union and hastily concluded a contract with the University, maintaining an open shop and adjusting certain working conditions...